Public bug reported:
I recently upgraded from Edgy to Feisty on my Dell Inspiron Laptop.
After a few reboots I encountered a filesysten problem where I was
dropped to a prompt because e2fsck could not repair the filesystem
problem. Running the fsck.ext3 utility manually didn't work, nor could I
boot up the Ubuntu Feisty Install/Live CD and properly perform the
repair.
After numerous attempts to repair the damaged filesystem I finally
decided to backup any files in the /home partition to a remote usb
drive. I then wanted to reinstall Ubuntu Feisty. Since I liked my former
partitioning arrangement I decided to keep what I had before and simply
reformat each and reinstall over the top.
When I got to the disk partitioner portion of the installation I tried
to select the partition that had previously demonstrated problems. Each
time it would start trying to write the partition information to disk
and never return control to me.
I then thought that something must be really screwed up with the disk
and thought I would just have the partitioner do an automatic format of
the hard drive. The partitioner did remove all the other partitions and
created only an ext3 and swap partition. Again when it came time to
format the partition I ran into problems. It refused to reformat. Now
the laptop is no longer usable.
After a couple of days I had a thought that perhaps all I needed was to
wipe the disk clean and reformat with something like Knoppix. Once this
reformatting was complete I would then go and re-install Feisty per my
initial layout.
Knoppix was able to get past the problem without an issues at all. I was
allowed to reformat the disk any way I chose. After using Knoppix I was
able to return to the Feisty installer and everything turned out fine.
For the record I used Knoppix 5.1 CD which uses a mke2fs version
1.40-wip with a build date of 14-11-2006. Checking the version of the
Feisty mke2fs I found that it to used version 1.40-WIP with EXT2FS
library with a build date of 14-11-2006.
The problem I encountered with the filesystem error is really bad, but
having an installer that can't work around the problem is worse.
** Affects: base-installer (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Partition Tool in Base Installer Refuses to work around a Partition Problem
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/115171
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