On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 23:05 +0000, GeorgeAmbrose wrote: > In my case xfs and ntfs had nothing to do with the bug. It had everything to > do with trying to use an > old /var partition. For some reason the installer only wants to work on > cleanly formatted system > partitions like '/', and '/var'. > > In my case I was trying to reuse an old '/var' (which had my web pages inside > /var/www), and kubuntu > would have none of it. So I used a different idle partition as a new '/var', > and formatted it, and it > worked. That was the only thing that changed between it not working and then > beginning to work. > Yes, in fact my circumstances were identical to what you just described. I was trying to reuse an old /var partition.
The crash happened very late in the whole installation, and I already had a 386-platform Dapper that had been running flawlessly for several months. So I booted the old installation, and revised /boot/grub/menu.lst to point to the new AMD64-platform installation. That worked. But the more I thought about the consequences of trying to share a /var partition, the less I liked what I was imagining. So I made a new installation from scratch, without referencing the old /var partition. And this time the installer didn't crash. The only difference was the /var partition, just as you observed. -- Installer crashed (xfs related?) https://launchpad.net/bugs/49178 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
