Hi, all. I can confirm that the problem described (at least the manifestation I experienced) is still an issue with the 7.10 x86 standard graphical installer, which I downloaded on 2/28/2008. I ran into the problem on a system with multiple hard disks, all containing preexisting filesystems, all of which were mounted when I originally tried to run the installer. I documented everything I did to get the installer to progress past 15% here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4429985#post4429985
Many related bugs suggest kernel problems, but I actually found partman to be the likely culprit, specifically /lib/partman/commit.d/01unmount_busy, which I had to kill (after unmounting all filesystems) in order to get the installer to continue. The installer *did*, however, pick back up essentially where it left off and completed without another hitch. What I'm not sure of is whether partman's "busy" script is hanging because ubiquity didn't do a good enough job of prompting the user and/or unmounting partitions before launching partman, or whether there's something wrong with the script causing it to hang in some circumstances. What tipped me off about '01unmount_busy' was the fact that it was consuming over 60% of the CPU, presumably waiting for the partition I was installing to (which was mounted at the time) to become free. I didn't really have the opportunity to digest what was going on inside the script, but it was definitely solely responsible for the lockup at 15% in my case. -- Edgy RC freezes at instalation in Sony Vaio vgn-s5hp https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67723 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
