[Bug 305793] Re: starting partitioner freezes machine at 50%

[Phillip Susi]

Closing since it seems it was fixed in 8.04.1.


** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  starting partitioner freezes machine at 50%

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Description:

  Trying to install a Ubuntu from the LiveCD, I get through the first
  few stages and then a dialog appears that days "starting paritioner".
  It has a progress bar that zooms to 50% instantly. After about two
  seconds, the animated progress bar stops its animation and the
  computer has completely frozen. No mouse, no response to ctrl-alt-
  delete. Only recovery is powercycle. I suspect this is related to the
  x25-e solid state drive.

  Reproducibility:

  100%. Reproduces exactly on Ibex AMD64, Ibex i386, Hardy AMD64

  Expected behaviour:

  Getting past the starting paritioner dialog.

  Actual behaviour:

  Complete lockup.

  Keywords:

  paritioner, freeze, ssd, x25-e, solid state drive, installer,
  ubiquity, ssd, installation failure, crash

  Additonal information:

  The hard disk is an Intel X25-E, which is their new superfast solid
  state disk. The hardware is known good and I've successfully installed
  and run Ubuntu in the past using other drives - and have never
  experienced any flakiness. I am able to manually parition the drive
  using fdisk, creating a swap and linux parition. I was able to
  manually format the linux parition to ext3 and set zero out swap using
  dd. None of this helps. The Ibex text based installer got further,
  paritioning fine but froze up at the "scanning CD for apt" dialog at
  12% (probably a separate issue)

  I have attached readouts from lspci, hdparm, and fdisk.

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