[Bug 1361951] Re: Utopic installation freezes during partition creation

[Phillip Susi]

I noticed this in the syslog:

Nov  1 15:48:08 ubuntu partman: mke2fs 1.42.10 (18-May-2014)
Nov  1 15:48:08 ubuntu partman: Found a dos partition table in /dev/sda10

It seems you have something that looks like a dos partition table in
/dev/sda10.  I'm guessing that mke2fs is printing that warning and then
asking if you want to continue, and it never gets any input since it
isn't actually connected to a tty.  partman-ext3 probably needs to add a
-F.

As a workaround, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda10 count=1 should clear it
out.


** Package changed: ubiquity (Ubuntu) => partman-ext3 (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: partman-ext3 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: partman-ext3 (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

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Title:
  Utopic installation freezes during partition creation

Status in “partman-ext3” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I'm testing an Ubuntu GNOME Utopic 20140826 i386 image and after
  selecting Something else and creating two partitions on a blank 80 GB
  (primary / about 77500mb and logical swap about 2500mb) shortly after
  the installation begins it freezes with the bottom of the window
  saying, "Creating ext4 filesystem for / in partition #1 of SCSI2
  (0,0,0) (sda) ...........".

  I've repeated this twice just in case the first attempt was a fluke,
  and the first time I waited well over an hour. I'm filing this report
  with the installer seemingly still attempting to run. I'd gladly
  repeat the test choosing to kill the installation before filing if I
  knew how.

  I'm attaching an actual screenshot of what the screen displays while
  frozen.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.19.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-10.15-generic 3.16.1
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-10-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.14.6-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.343
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Tue Aug 26 22:27:21 2014
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-gnome.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha i386 (20140826)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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