I just got a similar hang while installing Edgy from a fresh ISO and trying to to manual partioning since I got both Mepis and Windows XP (bad boy, bad boy) at the laptop. After some investigation in a terminal a 'ps aux' revealed that gparted was started and that it was waiting for a dosfsck on my Windows partition to finalize. After twenty minutes I did a simple 'sudo killall dosfsck' and gparted continued and work as expected thereafter. I guess my my Windows partition were unclean or wasn't booted for so long causing some problems for gparted.
Maybe this is related or should I file a new bug? -- installer hangs when using manual partitioning https://launchpad.net/bugs/42661 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
