[Bug 1038522] Re: [kde] manual partitioning in installer crashes when handling many partitions

[bmarsh]

I am having the installer crash on 13.04 beta 1   but I have had this
problem for the past SIX versions of Kubuntu.  That is, this has been a
problem for a LONG time.    I usually can get around it by minimizing
the number of partitions I specify manually to  /boot, /home, and
root(/).  But it usually takes about 6 tries before I can get it to
work.

But in about TEN tries on Kubuntu 13.04 beta1, I can't get past the
manual partition specification.  I've tried both from the "install
Kubuntu" initial screen, and from the "install kubuntu" icon after
booting the live CD system.  So I have to give up.

I always:

1) Do a total fresh install.
2) Manually create my own partitions using gparted

This was on a Toshiba laptop with only one disk drive.

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Title:
  [kde] manual partitioning in installer crashes when handling many
  partitions

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Precise:
  Triaged
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Quantal:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  when choosing manual partitioning, installer crashes when setting mount points. after many attempts where the installer just disapeared, I got:
  Exception in KDE frontend (invoking crash handler):
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_components/PartitionModel.py", line 105, in parent
      return self.createIndex(parentItem.row(), 0, parentItem)
  AttributeError: Partition instance has no attribute 'row'

  Exception in KDE frontend (invoking crash handler):
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_components/PartitionModel.py", line 100, in parent
      parentItem = childItem.parent()
  AttributeError: 'LineWrapMode' object has no attribute 'parent'

  Exception in KDE frontend (invoking crash handler):
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_components/PartitionModel.py", line 100, in parent
      parentItem = childItem.parent()
  AttributeError: 'LineWrapMode' object has no attribute 'parent'

  
  rather frustrating - I can set up 2 or 3 partitions before it crashes. I have 2 disks, sda and sdb and it doesn't reliably crash on any particular partition or disk. My Machine is currently a dual-boot Kubuntu 10.04 / Win 7 Ultimate. I wanted a complete fresh start for 12.04 so I was going to format the linux partitions

  sda1 bootable, NTFS
  sda2  Extended
  sda5  ext4  /home
  sda6 ext4  /var

  sdb1 NTFS
  sdb2 bootable ext4 /boot
  sdb3 Extended
  sdb5 ext4   /

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.10.16
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic-pae 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.315
  Date: Sat Aug 18 21:28:52 2012
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/kubuntu.seed FRONTEND_BACKGROUND=original boot=casper maybe-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   TERM=xterm
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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