[Bug 1357846] [NEW] Manual partitioning fails in complex multiboot

[Brendan Perrine]

Public bug reported:

I was trying to install the AMD64 dialy build of today onto an external
hard drive. To reproduce have a external hard disk with first partition
NTFS used for storage and if I need to transfer something to someone
elses windows box and then have ubuntu 12.04 variant with openbox and an
ubuntu 14.04 with unity in an extended partion with the swap in the
middle and have an internal drive on laptop with lubuntu and manjaro on
it. Then I tried to get install with manual partition to delete an old
install of trusty that I was using when it was in development installed.
I then deleted tihs partition and tried to create a new / and /home
partition but got error message when continuing with the installation
that the partition does not line up and can lead to very poor
performance. I could not get tihs message to go away hit revert and the
partitioning and then it seems to keep going and going for a long time.

With my complex partition structure I tried to install then hit revert after got error messages about partition alighnment recreate the partition to automatically fix it and then could not get them to go away and hit revert. 
I switched to see if any cpu resources were being used and top showed that resize2fs was in a dormant state showing a D in top when I switched to a tty. I then tried to launch apport as this is a bug as it is not an active process.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: ubiquity 2.19.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-8.13-generic 3.16.0
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.5-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.341
Date: Sun Aug 17 02:36:20 2014
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140816)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lubuntu ubiquity-2.19.2 utopic

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Title:
  Manual partitioning fails in complex multiboot

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I was trying to install the AMD64 dialy build of today onto an
  external hard drive. To reproduce have a external hard disk with first
  partition NTFS used for storage and if I need to transfer something to
  someone elses windows box and then have ubuntu 12.04 variant with
  openbox and an ubuntu 14.04 with unity in an extended partion with the
  swap in the middle and have an internal drive on laptop with lubuntu
  and manjaro on it. Then I tried to get install with manual partition
  to delete an old install of trusty that I was using when it was in
  development installed. I then deleted tihs partition and tried to
  create a new / and /home partition but got error message when
  continuing with the installation that the partition does not line up
  and can lead to very poor performance. I could not get tihs message to
  go away hit revert and the partitioning and then it seems to keep
  going and going for a long time.

  With my complex partition structure I tried to install then hit revert after got error messages about partition alighnment recreate the partition to automatically fix it and then could not get them to go away and hit revert. 
  I switched to see if any cpu resources were being used and top showed that resize2fs was in a dormant state showing a D in top when I switched to a tty. I then tried to launch apport as this is a bug as it is not an active process.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.19.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-8.13-generic 3.16.0
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-8-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.5-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.341
  Date: Sun Aug 17 02:36:20 2014
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140816)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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