Ubuntu 9.10 beta freezes during installation i'm trying also daily karmic builds to install

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Many Thanks

Neil Perry

I had a similar issue with a completely different laptop using Karmic Beta 'Desktop' amd64 attempting to setup a dual boot with Vista.

I gave up after about 15 minutes of 'hmm is it still installing or what', installed a fresh hard disk in the computer and did a complete install on the fresh disk. This then took about 25 minutes to complete without the same 'hmm' as above.

I did notice that during this 15 minutes of uncertainty that afterwards the Vista boot still worked, but the partition had been resized to the full extent, even though it was shrunk prior to attempting to install Ubuntu. Something in parted must have resized that partition.

Perhaps there is something to do with the partition editor that is playing havoc. Unfortunately I do not have enough info to post a bug report, but maybe you or someone else does that noticed this behavior.

Hi Jeruvy,

It's "good" to know that I'm not alone with this issue. I was too hasty, and after 15 min I simply turned off my computer. The first boot after it went bad, freezing after a few seconds. The second one, however, went just fine.

If I get a free time during this week, I'll try installing 9.10 beta alternate without home encryption and 9.10 beta desktop.

Hello Claudio,

Any update to this?

Hi Jeruvy,

Right now I'm installing 9.10 amd64 alternate using a daily build (if I'm not wrong, from oct 14th), following almost the same steps, and installer is stopped at 26% for more than 30 minutes. Hard disk activity LED is on during all this time.

But it seems our question was posted as a bug since alpha 5:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/428218

and

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/432422

Choosing "no" to home encryption when asked seems to avoid this problem. This is quite interesting:

"at 83% gnome-system-monitor says that the command "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1" is running.
(I think wiping partition or something)"

Maybe this explains why it takes so long before finishing the installation?

Oh, an update: my installation is finished now, after almost 50 min "stucked" at 26%.

Well that is good to know. I'm wondering if this 'wipe' is the reason. Perhaps your disk is causing the grief directly. I'd install smartmontools (if you haven't) and test the disks for errors. I'd also be curious if this was due to converting an existing filesystem to ext4, but I haven't enough data to determine this on my own (my own filesystem died horribly during a partial-upgrade, forcing a reinstall).

Otherwise I'd be thinking this is a bug worth reporting.