[Bug 1361951] Re: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition
No, it was unclear which precise set of circumstances caused mke2fs to not be happy. I tried a bunch of different alternatives from comments here when I said I could not reproduce it, that's because I hadn't hit the right set of circumstances: it's definitely not just randomly using fdisk or parted to create a partition table, people don't go around doing that themselves: they were hitting an issue related to the general partitioning scheme, either as done by us or as done by Windows, or even by something else (and in fact, is probably simply because of how the extended partitions work). Still, regardless of the reason, there was never a question that adding -F would work; I just like to really understand what is happening before applying fixes rather than blindly doing something and hoping it will work. ** Changed in: partman-ext3 (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl) ** Changed in: partman-ext3 (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => In Progress ** Summary changed: - Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition + mke2fs asks for input when formatting over a partition table -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1361951 Title: mke2fs asks for input when formatting over a partition table To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-ext3/+bug/1361951/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1361951] Re: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition
Reproduction is pretty simple: use fdisk or parted to create a partition table in the partition, then mke2fs whinges that the partition table is there. It needs the -F switch to not do that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1361951 Title: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-ext3/+bug/1361951/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1361951] Re: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition
Any news on this bug ? The next version is a LTS, that have to be fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1361951 Title: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-ext3/+bug/1361951/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1361951] Re: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition
** Tags added: xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1361951 Title: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-ext3/+bug/1361951/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1361951] Re: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition
I was having the same issue with 15.10 install media but resolved it by booting into the live session, opening a terminal, using fdisk to create a new GPT table, making one giant partition, formatting it, then proceeding with install. Install went off without a hitch. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1361951 Title: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-ext3/+bug/1361951/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1361951] Re: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition
It's odd that it seems so infrequent for others. It happens every time for me. I specifically set up my partitions into / and /home so that I wouldn't have to wipe /home every time, but this has resulted in me never being able to install using the Something Else method. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1361951 Title: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-ext3/+bug/1361951/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1361951] Re: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition
I sas re-installing a 15.04 x64 ISO image earlier and I had the above freezing problem with ubiquity. I was reusing my existing partition structure, keeping the /home partition but formatting the others. I found that removing a /var partition and formatting / and /usr partitions allowed the installer to move to the copying files sections of the install. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1361951 Title: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-ext3/+bug/1361951/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1361951] Re: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition
During Wily final iso testing last night I experienced my first ever such freeze while reformatting a primary partition as shown in the attached side-by-side screenshots. I included the gnome-clock at the top so you can see it's an actual freeze, the first shot was probably 10 to 15 minutes into the process and the next is more than 30 minutes later. Just to give an idea of how random this freeze may be, I've performed that identical test on the same partition dozens of times in the past and this is the first time it's frozen with a primary partition like that. It's much more likely to occur on a logical partition in the double digits. ** Attachment added: "Freeze_primary.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-ext3/+bug/1361951/+attachment/4502483/+files/Freeze_primary.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1361951 Title: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-ext3/+bug/1361951/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1361951] Re: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition
With this I guess we might have enough data to try some more things -- it may be that this is happening in a very specific case with extended partitions, or some different partition table I haven't tried yet. Marking Triaged/Medium. ** Changed in: partman-ext3 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1361951 Title: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-ext3/+bug/1361951/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1361951] Re: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition
This problem is still happening right now in the 15.10 installer in a virtual machine. Exact same symptoms. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1361951 Title: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-ext3/+bug/1361951/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1361951] Re: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition
I changed the status back to New because this just occured performing a Vivid install for upgrade testing (see attached screenshot compilation). I'll try to add more info ASAP but I'd refer you to my comment #13 for now regarding the ability to reproduce this bug. I'd have to amend that though because you can see from these newest screenshots that I was working on /dev/sda8 so rather than saying those criteria "must" exist I think it's more accurate to say that the freeze is "more likely" to occur if those criteria exist. However the one criteria that absolutely must be met is that the existing partition must contain either an existing OS or data because once the installation is Quit and the partition is reformatted using Gparted the installation can be completed as desired. I suspect that reports of ubiquity freezes during anything other than manual partitioning are not duplicates of this bug so new bug reports should be filed. This freeze always displays "Creating ext4 filesystem for / in partition #1 of SCSI2 (0,0,0) (sda) ..." either on the screen shown in these screenshots or on the later screen as shown in this screenshot: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/183255225/Screenshot%20from%202014-08-26%2022%3A26%3A27.png Sorry I haven't found a sure fire way to reproduce this bug. Sometimes it happens and other times it doesn't. ** Attachment added: "Freeze_comp.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-ext3/+bug/1361951/+attachment/4501377/+files/Freeze_comp.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1361951 Title: Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-ext3/+bug/1361951/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
