Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ubiquity
I booted from the newly released Kubuntu 9.04 Desktop amd64 iso and chose the
install option.
When asked about partitions, I chose the manual / advanced option.
I have a scsi drive and I already had 2 ntfs partitions (sda1 and sda5) + 20 gb
free space at the end.
I made two more partitions in the free space, sda6 as ext4 and sda7 as swap
(2gb) and I chose to format the ext4 partition.
After hitting next, the installer worked a bit then told me it can't
format the ext4 partition and jumped back to the time zone selection
page.
Tried again (partitions sda6 & sda7 were already there this time) and got the
same error.
Extract from /var/log/messages:
Apr 23 20:12:54 ubuntu ubiquity[9388]: switched to page stepReady
Apr 23 20:13:20 ubuntu kernel: [ 2029.196034] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns
to 15000 nsec
Apr 23 20:13:47 ubuntu ubiquity[9388]: Step_before = stepReady
Apr 23 20:13:47 ubuntu ubiquity[9388]: progress_loop()
Apr 23 20:13:49 ubuntu partman: mke2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
Apr 23 20:13:49 ubuntu partman: Could not stat /dev/sda6 --- No such file or
directory
Apr 23 20:13:49 ubuntu partman:
Apr 23 20:13:49 ubuntu partman: The device apparently does not exist; did you
specify it correctly?
Apr 23 20:14:30 ubuntu ubiquity[9388]: switched to page stepPartAdvanced
Apr 23 20:14:31 ubuntu ubiquity[9388]: switched to page stepLocation
Apr 23 20:14:36 ubuntu ubiquity[9388]: Step_before = stepLocation
Apr 23 20:14:37 ubuntu ubiquity[9388]: log-output -t ubiquity setxkbmap -model
pc105 -layout us -variant altgr-intl -option
Apr 23 20:14:37 ubuntu ubiquity[9388]: switched to page stepKeyboardConf
I managed to complete the installation by manually creating devices /dev/sda6
and /dev/sda7 before hitting next (I checked and I only had /dev/sda /dev/sda1
/dev/sda2 /dev/sda5, sda2 being the logical partition windows makes):
mknod /dev/sda6 b 8 6
mknod /dev/sda7 b 8 7
I am guessing the installer won't automatically create the device files
in /dev after creating the partitions, so it can't format them.
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Installer fails to format partition
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365702
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