Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ubiquity
I was able to install successfully with Ubiquity 2.5.22 (using the
3/6/2011 daily natty-desktop-i386.iso, MD5SUM
0fa821d25ede844897861acf313fa155). However, with Ubiquity 2.5.23 (using
the 3/8/2011 image, MD5SUM dde1a3000b2e0c2dca242dd17bfb286e) and
Ubiquity 2.5.24 (using today's 3/9/2011 image, MD5SUM
e2dee9ee2aeac4e8e0e73ef421c7f0ba), Ubiquity hangs on the "Preparing to
install Ubuntu" step. I am able to check and uncheck the boxes for
"Download updates while installing" and "Install this third-party
software", and I am able to click the Forward button, and after clicking
the Forward button the Forward and Back buttons become grayed out as is
expected, but no matter how long I wait (the longest so far has been two
hours), Ubiquity never proceeds to the next step of the installation.
This bug report is generated against ubiquity 2.5.24, but the above
description applies equally to ubiquity 2.5.23. The attached screenshot
illustrates the problem. With ubiquity 2.5.22, moving on to the next
step takes a maximum of five seconds.
I have retested each of the three ubiquity versions multiple times each,
and the above description has always held. The machines on which I am
testing this have all been equivalent VMware Workstation 7.1.3
build-324285 virtual machines. By "equivalent" I mean that they have
been identical except for the different unique identifier numbers
associated with some virtual hardware components.
In each test as described above, I selected Try Ubuntu and then ran
Ubiquity by double-clicking the Install Ubuntu icon on the desktop, and
I checked both boxes before clicking Forward. However, for ubiquity
2.5.24, I subsequently tried running Ubiquity by clicking Install Ubuntu
(so it was the only application running, with no desktop or panel), and
when I did this I left the two checkboxes unchecked before clicking
Forward. The same hang was produced. Separately from those runs, the
current running (and hung) instance of ubiquity 2.5.24 against which I
am reporting this bug was launched by clicking Try Ubuntu, opening a
Terminal window, and running the command "ubiquity --debug gtk_ui"
(without the quotes).
Ubiquity does not use significant CPU time during this hang. I have
verified that this is the case with ubiquity 2.5.23 as well as ubiquity
2.5.24.
This bug resembles bug 694041, but that bug occurred with installing
Maverick (ubiquity 2.4.8), and a comment in that bug suggests that it
might only occur when an external USB hard drive is attached.
This bug also resembles bug 729556, but that bug report strongly
suggests that it may only occur when "exotic filesystems" are present,
and more importantly, that bug occurs with ubiquity 2.5.22 (which is the
latest version of ubiquity with which I am able to install
successfully).
This bug also resembles bug 729870, but that bug also occurs with
ubiquity 2.5.22.
Therefore I have decided to report this bug separately, rather than post
in any of those bug reports. I understand that there might well be
additional similar bug reports that I have not documented here, but if
so, I did not find them while searching.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: ubiquity 2.5.24
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 9 19:25:22 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110309)
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 natty
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Title:
clicking Forward on "Preparing" step hangs with ubiquity 2.5.24 and
2.5.23 but not 2.5.22
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