** Description changed: The installer hangs forever at message "Saving installed packages" under certain conditions. Steps to reproduce: - Start gparted, create GPT partition table and create big enough partitions as follows: - /dev/sda1 formatted as ext4 - /dev/sda2 formatted as ext4 - Start Ubiquity - Use default options until you reach "Installation Type" - Choose "Something else" - Choose usage of partitions and mount points as follows (do NOT format!) -- /dev/sda1 on / -- /dev/sda2 on /var - Hit "Install now" (ignore the warning) => Installer will then hang forever. Last message it displays is: "Saving installed packages" - I have tried this with 11.10 live CDs on a physical machine and VMs and - it always shows this behaviour. + I have tried this with 14.04 live CDs (daily build) on a physical + machine and VMs and it always shows this behaviour. Some notes: - You can avoid the problem, if you mark / or /var (or both) for formatting - It only seems to happen with a separate /var partition. If only /usr is different, everything works as expected - - The problem did not exist in previous installers + - The problem did not exist in previous installers (before Ubuntu 11.10) The reason why I do not want to format with Ubiquity is because I have pre-formatted my partitions with special parameters which I cannot set in Ubiquity. ProblemType: Bug - DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 - Package: ubiquity 2.8.7 - ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 - Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 - ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 + DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 + Package: ubiquity 2.17.1 + ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-7.15-generic 3.12.4 + Uname: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic x86_64 + ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 - CasperVersion: 1.287 - Date: Sat Oct 15 21:01:41 2011 - LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) + CasperVersion: 1.336ubuntu1 + Date: Tue Dec 17 01:55:05 2013 + LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20131216) ProcEnviron: + LANGUAGE=en_US + TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: ubiquity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) - --- - ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 - Architecture: amd64 - CasperVersion: 1.287 - DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 - LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) - Package: ubiquity 2.8.7 - PackageArchitecture: amd64 - ProcEnviron: - PATH=(custom, no user) - LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash - ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 - Tags: oneiric ubiquity-2.8.7 - Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 - UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) - UserGroups:
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