The girl who owns the computer was very emotional about your proposal. I'm afraid she's not willing to spend hours to destroy the hard disk just for sake of obtaining a log... And, by the way, where and how she would save this log? (The live CD may be ejected and replaced with a CDRW?)
How can one revive the computer after the installer hangs? If the installer had a button "mount a filesystem and save logs there", that would be possible -- if the button still worked. So: 1) there is no evident way to mount a storage media, especially after the installer hangs (and the system does not react) 2) you should provide an UI to obtain these logs *at the moment that the problem happens*. People will always be unwilling to reproduce the partitioner/installer bugs at their own equipment. BTW, it _is_ an excellent recipe to get rid of bugs that you don't want to fix: just ask the reporter to reinstall the system and reproduce it. 30.11.07, 18:21, Evan Dandrea ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm afraid your current description is not enough to determine the cause > of error. Can you please run the installer again and when it hangs, > attach /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman to this bug report following > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUbiquity/AttachingLogs > Thanks! > ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete -- cannot format ext3 partition on laptop during installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/165320 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
