Public bug reported:
Description:
Trying to install a Ubuntu from the LiveCD, I get through the first few
stages and then a dialog appears that days "starting paritioner". It has
a progress bar that zooms to 50% instantly. After about two seconds, the
animated progress bar stops its animation and the computer has
completely frozen. No mouse, no response to ctrl-alt-delete. Only
recovery is powercycle. I suspect this is related to the x25-e solid
state drive.
Reproducibility:
100%. Reproduces exactly on Ibex AMD64, Ibex i386, Hardy AMD64
Expected behaviour:
Getting past the starting paritioner dialog.
Actual behaviour:
Complete lockup.
Keywords:
paritioner, freeze, ssd, x25-e, solid state drive, installer, ubiquity,
ssd, installation failure, crash
Additonal information:
The hard disk is an Intel X25-E, which is their new superfast solid
state disk. The hardware is known good and I've successfully installed
and run Ubuntu in the past using other drives - and have never
experienced any flakiness. I am able to manually parition the drive
using fdisk, creating a swap and linux parition. I was able to manually
format the linux parition to ext3 and set zero out swap using dd. None
of this helps. The Ibex text based installer got further, paritioning
fine but froze up at the "scanning CD for apt" dialog at 12% (probably a
separate issue)
I have attached readouts from lspci, hdparm, and fdisk.
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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starting partitioner freezes machine at 50%
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/305793
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