Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: yelp
I tried installing both the 64bit and 32 bit versions of Ubuntu Studio 9.10 on
my Dell XPS Studio 13 Laptop. Both failed the same way.
BACKGROUND
I had previously successfully installed 9.04. My hard drive was partitioned to
allow dual boot with Vista. Instead of "upgrading" I tried treating the
process as a new install, and I manually instructed the disk partitioning phase
of the install to reformat the old etx3 partition I had used as root / on 9.04
as ext4 (also to be mounted as my new root /).
Since I normally use my wifi internet connection I skipped the network
configuration part of booting (since the dhcp attempt would fail anyway
due to my WAP set up). Although I did not try it, I think it would have
failed even if I manually tried to enter the correct WAP settings since
I needed the "non-opensource Broadcom drivers" to get my WIFI device
working. I recommend a more robust install script to determine if
special drivers are needed during install and to support the option of
using them (or at least detect that it will not work and gracefully
bypass network config with helpful messages about what to do after
install to get wireless working). But that is not my bug.
At some point during the software installation phase (both 32 bit and 64
bit versions), there was an error. I never got detailed feedback about
what failed (bad for you - bad for me). The installer did give me the
option to retry or attempt to continue but I could not make any further
progress - all attempts ended up with the same result. I ultimately had
to force a restart. Because this error ocurred after my old EXT 3
partition had been reformatted but before the new bootloader was
installed, I could no longer reboot from my hard drive.
Another attempt to run the installer while connected physically to my
router with an ehternet cable worked fine.
Note - there was no damage to my other partitions. In particular my
Vista partition was undamaged or changed. Nevertheless, I regard this
as a serious bug or limitation. Novice users might easily have panicked
when they got to a point where they could no longer boot from their hard
drive, thinking the only way out was to re-image the disk (thus loosing
all their files).
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 5 18:54:25 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.152-rt
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-rt x86_64
** Affects: yelp (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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Ubuntu Studio new install fails if not connected to the internet
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/476107
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