** Description changed: 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. + might only occur when an external USB hard drive is attached. [EDIT: + Julian Taylor posted in bug 694041--actually before I filed this bug + report--to indicate that he experiences that bug with ubiquity 2.5.22. + Since I am not convinced that this bug is the same as that bug in + Maverick, and since this bug did *not* occur for me with ubiquity 2.5.22 + (it occurred starting with ubiquity 2.5.23), I have not taken this as a + reason to consider this bug a duplicate of bug 694041.] 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 + 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)
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