[Bug 454358] Re: karmic ubiquity installer hangs in partitioner after dismounting 2nd drive

[John Gilmore]

It's only "end of life" because the bug-handling team sat on it without
action for four years.  This bug is not MY problem, it's yours.

No, I am neither able nor willing to reproduce this with a later Ubuntu
release.  I've switched to Fedora.

If you actually care about addressing the bug that I wasted a few hours
chasing down and reporting to you, the bug report contains all the
information that YOU need to reproduce it (on Karmic or any later
release).  I did my part.  You could've tried to reproduce it, then
reported "I can't reproduce it, neither in Karmic nor the latest
release", showing good faith on your part, and then it would be worth my
time to help chase it down.  But since your response is just a lazy
attempt to chivvy the bug into a "closed due to EOL" status without
actually doing any work to solve the underlying problem, why should I
waste any more time here?  If I did reproduce it in 12.04 or 13.10, I
have every reason to expect another multi-year delay and then another
demand that if I don't work on it some more, you'll just close it
unfixed.

I suggest making a new category for "bugs closed because we aren't
interested in addressing them" and closing it into that category.  It'll
be a very popular category.  Merely closing the bug would leave the
incorrect implication that it had been fixed -- or even investigated.

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Title:
  karmic ubiquity installer hangs in partitioner after dismounting 2nd
  drive

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  UNR karmic beta, installing on Acer Aspire OneD250 netbook.  Netbook
  has internal SATA hard drive, containing both Windows and a bug-
  aborted install of Karmic.  Also plugged into it is an external USB
  drive with an NTFS partition on it (used sometimes by the Windows
  install on this netbook).

  Installing from external USB CD drive.  Checked the CD from boot menu
  - it's good.

  Did live run.  Then hit Install to disk.

  Got through the questions to step 3, chose "USA" keyboard as
  recommended.  Got a pop-up "Unmount partitions that are in use?" about
  would I like to unmount /dev/sdb (the external USB drive) because it has partitions on it I
  won't be able to mess with in the installer.  Went out into a
  terminal, "df -h", sure, there's an unrelated filesystem on that
  drive, so I told the pop-up to unmount it ("Yes").  It did.

  But immediately after, it hangs with "Starting up the partitioner" in
  a pop-up on the screen, with scroll bar at 70%, saying "Detecting file
  systems...".  I've let it sit here for about ten minutes, it isn't moving.
  Cursor is a rotating circle.  The "Quit" button at the bottom of the
  screen is white (not grey) but hitting it has no effect.  There is no
  close box or quit box on the pop-up.  (There's a tiny circle on the left
  that pops up a menu, but the menu has "Close" greyed-out!)

  "ps ax" shows pid 5282 "/bin/sh /lib/partman/update.d/20detected_filesystem /va\
  r/lib/partman/devices/=dev=sdb 5 ....."

  *** BUG2:  ubiquity provides no way out when partitioner hangs.

  When I restarted, unplugged the USB external hard drive, and tried again, this problem did
  not occur.

  So I restarted, plugged it in again, rebooted the CD.  Tried doing "ubiquity -d" based on
  reading other bug reports.  Got same problem.

  Then after reading more ubiquity bug reports, I installed the latest
  ubiquity and webkit:

  Apt-get update; apt-get install libwebkit-1.0-2 (1.1.15.2-1) ubiquity
  (2.0.0)

  (As suggested in lp#452796).

  Got same hang.  I've attached syslog, partman, and installer/debug
  files.

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