| jago25 | Ubiquity is freezing for me on language selection. I can't download >~10mb due to bandwith problems. So I need t ofall back on to another way to install. How do I fall back to the debian installer? Alternatively, perhaps I could update Ubuquity? I think the crashing is due to a complicated partition table possibly; fdisk -l says the partitions are out of order (but windows works find) | 13:18 |
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| jago25 | Quiet i inhere :/ | 14:02 |
| lcapriotti | cjwatson: grub-installer_1.43ubuntu8_i386.udeb: <grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)"> fails due to a missing /etc/mtab in /target, any advice? (Custom LiveCD) | 14:05 |
| lcapriotti | works fine after manually executing "grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab" | 14:06 |
| ev | cjwatson: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/16/163 - fail. | 14:28 |
| ev | perhaps we should record this on the filesystem as part of livecd-rootfs? | 14:29 |
| ev | saving us the time of calculating something that is static. | 14:29 |
| lcapriotti | cjwatson: commenting line "[ ! -h /etc/mtab ] || return 0" in functions.sh/update_grub makes the installer work, would you mind to explain? | 15:01 |
| lcapriotti | other info: grub legacy selected | 15:02 |
| CIA-93 | partman-iscsi: cjwatson * r37 ubuntu/debian/changelog: releasing version 8 | 15:14 |
| ev | bootchart works quite nicely: http://people.canonical.com/~evand/tmp/ubiquity-to-summary.png | 15:16 |
| cjwatson | lcapriotti: I have no idea, but surely the bug is the missing mtab, not any code in grub-installer | 15:18 |
| cjwatson | ev: record as part of livecd-rootfs> works for me | 15:18 |
| ev | coolness, I'll make that change todayish | 15:18 |
| lcapriotti | right, but mtab is built by that update_mtab | 15:19 |
| cjwatson | jago25: a freeze during language selection can't be due to your partition table | 15:19 |
| lcapriotti | which works by commenting the [ -h ... | 15:19 |
| cjwatson | lcapriotti: that test is "is /etc/mtab already a symlink?" | 15:19 |
| cjwatson | and if it's a symlink, that's typically to /proc/mounts, so it can't update that | 15:20 |
| lcapriotti | right, in d-i's root fs that is a symlink | 15:20 |
| lcapriotti | but what about mtab in /target? | 15:20 |
| lcapriotti | that is the one missing | 15:21 |
| lcapriotti | and that is the one created by update_mtab | 15:21 |
| cjwatson | oh, that should be $ROOT/etc/mtab I think | 15:21 |
| lcapriotti | hehe, that's what I thought | 15:21 |
| cjwatson | maybe? | 15:21 |
| cjwatson | I'd have to check the history to make sure | 15:21 |
| cjwatson | file a bug please | 15:21 |
| lcapriotti | launchad for debian-install? | 15:22 |
| lcapriotti | *launchpad? | 15:22 |
| cjwatson | no | 15:22 |
| cjwatson | https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-installer/+filebug | 15:23 |
| lcapriotti | K, on my way. Tks for your support | 15:23 |
| cjwatson | yes, looks like it was introduced by a freebsd porter | 15:24 |
| lcapriotti | https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-installer/+bug/484832 | 15:27 |
| ubottu | Launchpad bug 484832 in grub-installer "grub-installer fails to create /target/etc/mtab - it checks for d-i /etc/mtab rather than /target/etc/mtab" [Undecided,New] | 15:27 |
| cjwatson | lcapriotti: fixed upstream | 15:40 |
| lcapriotti | cool, looking forward to the new udeb | 15:40 |
| cjwatson | well, for lucid ... | 15:40 |
| lcapriotti | too bad, I'd need it for karmic | 15:41 |
| cjwatson | you have a custom iso anyway :-) | 15:41 |
| lcapriotti | sure, but I would like to rely on official udebs! | 15:42 |
| lcapriotti | anyway, good to have understood there the problem is | 15:42 |
| lcapriotti | and with grub2 it seems it's ok - doesn't it rely on mtab too? | 15:43 |
| cjwatson | it doesn't try to edit it | 15:43 |
| cjwatson | actually I don't recall exactly what needs mtab, sorry | 15:44 |
| * cjwatson is at a conference and not really well-placed to dig that out :) | 15:44 | |
| lcapriotti | no problm, you were very helpful | 15:44 |
| jago25 | This is a repeat question after 2hr wait and seeing some activity in here: Ubiquity is freezing for me on language selection. I can't download >~10mb due to bandwith problems. So I need t ofall back on to another way to install. How do I fall back to the debian installer? Alternatively, perhaps I could update Ubuquity? I think the crashing is due to a complicated partition table possibly; fdisk | 16:14 |
| jago25 | -l says the partitions are out of order (but windows works find) | 16:14 |
| jago25 | Would love to have at least just the twinkle of an opinion on it :/ | 16:24 |
| jago25 | :/ o well, I give up then, bye | 16:39 |
| cjwatson | jago25: I answered you already! | 16:58 |
| cjwatson | 15:19 <cjwatson> jago25: a freeze during language selection can't be due to your partition table | 16:58 |
| cjwatson | jago25: you can use the alternate install CD if you want to use d-i | 16:59 |
| cjwatson | jago25: but a ubiquity freeze on language selection indicates some rather strange problem ... perhaps a dodgy CD (drive|disk)? | 16:59 |
| ev | cjwatson: does this look okay to you <http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/321690/>? | 17:37 |
| cjwatson | ev: yes, looks fine | 17:45 |
| ev | thanks | 17:45 |
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| CIA-93 | ubiquity: evand * r3587 ubiquity/ (debian/changelog ubiquity/frontend/base.py): Run success_cmd, error_cmd, and automation_error_cmd as root. | 21:18 |
| StevenK | ev: have you seen something like this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484996 ? | 21:19 |
| ubottu | Launchpad bug 484996 in unr-meta "UNR installer fails to load with persistent boot option on Aspire one A110" [Undecided,New] | 21:19 |
| === robbiew1 is now known as robbiew | ||
| ev | StevenK: nope; followed up in the bug | 21:22 |
| StevenK | ev: Oh, I was going to do that, thanks! | 21:22 |
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