Ok, so I just sat and ran through the installation process, letting the installer sit when it stalled and timing the lags. I got to the point that I had previously thought was an indefinite hang where it was preparing the encrypted LVM stuff and went to lunch. When I came back an hour later, it was sitting waiting for input (LVM password, username, etc). The stalls I timed during the remainder of the install ranged anywhere from 2-5 minutes each. After sitting through that process for about 45 minutes I just started tapping the keyboard to keep the install moving. The remainder of the install took about 20 minutes. All told, it took about 2 and half hours to complete, including some indeterminate amount of time it was sitting waiting for input while I was gone. I was actually here watching it though for one and half hours of that time, sitting through numerous stalls.
I've also done an install using the default "use whole disk" option on this machine and it exhibited the same stalling behavior, though it did not take nearly as long to complete, presumably because encryption was no longer a factor and I was tapping the keyboard as soon as I noticed a stall rather than waiting for stalls to unstick on their own. This installation finished in less than 30 minutes. A much more acceptable amount of time. As a point of reference I did an install on a VM using the same ISO and install options on my desktop machine. It took about 45 minutes including time to wipe an 8GB virtual drive, with no apparent stalling. The drives on the machine remained active through all portions of the install that I expected them to be active. I really don't know where to go from here. While this technically "works", if this problem makes it into the final release, it could potentially be quite a black eye if it surfaces on even a relatively small number of machines. I can only assume that this problem was introduced relatively recently (it did not exist in Gutsy on this hardware) and only affects certain hardware combinations. -- Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217849 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
