Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ubiquity
Tried reinstalling kubuntu 6.10 because swap space on first install came
out at just some tiny number of megs instead of 2 GB (not sure why).
This time decided to have it put grub on sda5, the first partition (100
MB) on my only HDD. Previously it had put grub in the boot sector w/out
my realizing it, which I didn't like (wanna fix that too please???)
It crashed. I really really want ubuntu and kubuntu etc. to succeed, and
I'll make it work for me, but the whole partition process, well, only
way to put it clearly is it SUCKS DONKEY DICK!!! Really, people, I'm
pissed! First time it decided the numbers of my partitions were
different than those gparted came up with in my previous distro
(puppylinux, like it matters). Because of this it erased the WRONG ONE,
nuking all the very important files on my hard drive, which I'd kept on
a separate partition, never imagining it would screw up the wrong one. I
know you are probably going to assume this didn't really happen, that I
screwed up, but it did. I can't say it was kubuntu and no gparted, since
I'd majorly tweaked and re-tweaked my partitions, but it was bad bad
bad. Thank god for backups.
Enough whining... this time once again the partitioning process showed
problems.
All the following happened after choosing to manually edit partition
table...
-Clicking on "Create" without having selected a blank space on the disk in the
disk diagram at the top causes the program to hang.
-Creating multiple partitions and committing fails... it creates the partitions
but does not format them to be ext3 etc... just leaves them as unknown (and
takes only moments, not enough to get the workdone anyhow.
-Even when I got it to [apparently] correctly format the various partitions by
creating and committing them one by one it still showed just three partitions
out of five in "step 6 of 6" - "prepare mount points"... no idea why, but
restarting the installer worked. Or it did until it choked on grub.
I only got an actual crash that led to it spitting out stuff to the
screen to include here with the grub error, so here it is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 166, in ?
main()
File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 161, in main
install(sys.argv[1])
File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 57, in install
ret = wizard.run()
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 338, in run
self.process_step()
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 828, in
process_step
self.progress_loop()
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 599, in
progress_loop
raise RuntimeError, ("Install failed with exit code %s\n%s" %
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1404, in ?
install.run()
File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 385, in run
self.configure_bootloader()
File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1163, in configure_bootloader
raise InstallStepError(
InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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manual partitioning fails in numerous fatal ways, ERASES WRONG PARITTION. Bad
kubuntu! Bad!
https://launchpad.net/bugs/84473
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