Public bug reported:
Scenario: Booted Xubuntu Live CD 7.04 Feisty Fawn on a Windows laptop.
I like what I see, so I launch the install icon on the XFCE desktop.
When we get to the question about disk prep, I let the installer take
the whole hard drive.
It appears to partition the drive, then there is a daemon running from
the Live CD that is triggered and mounts the drive before the installer
gets to format the filesystem (it appears that the drive has been
partitioned and marked with /dev/sda1 as ext3 but XFCE still detects an
NTFS filesystem from the windows install and mounts as such). At this
point, the installer can't format a drive because its now mounted, so it
fails and loops back to the section on partition selection. If you
didn't know what was going on, you could loop in here forever.
If you quickly enough unmount the new drive icon as XFCE makes it appear
on the desktop you can get the install to continue a bit but will soon
fail because the new swap partition appears to be automatically mounted
too.
I got by this by having a terminal open with the commands sudo umount
/dev/sda1 and sudo swapoff /dev/sda5 ready at the appropriate time, but
it would be better if the installer disabled whichever daemon is
responsible for making new filesystems get mounted automatically.
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Xubuntu installer endless loop during disk preparation
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125809
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