Installationg Takes long at Partion Phase

[wrender]

I noticed during the installation from inside a live session that it hung a long time saying it needed to unmount a partion. Probably because I had opened dolphin. I tried to let it umount but it just kept sitting there thinking. So I rebooted and went back into the live session. The purpose being setting up the wifi so it could download updates and restricted stuff while installing. It thought a really long time at the same point but managed to proceed through.

[suplero]

installer hangs

I don't know if this belongs here, but I have a problem where it hangs too.

I got the DVD burned, MD5 matches, and on install, I can continue after selecting the language, but then after checking for internet and hard drive space, it seems to hang.

I also checked using a startup usb drive, and the install hangs at the same place.

I can't get to the disk setup because it hangs after continuing beyond the prepare step.

I did a web search, and found one post that said something about it clearing up after 2 1/2 hours, but I don't really want to wait that long.

system is an old single core, athlon64, using the x64 disk, 300gb IDE drive, 4gb ram. - i haven't checked using sata drives, but that might be the next step.

Edit: this is the installer after booting into the live system, not the installer after the intial boot screen.

[suplero]

seems to hang when selecting install after the initial boot too. I'm not sure what is going on.

[white]

Im having the very same problem,but mine is a Pentium 4 system, torrented the 386 iso MD5 checked ok then made a bootable USB stick using Li Li USb creator witch btw took like an hour to make, cant explain why, after that tried it on the system to install, it boots but after it asks me if i want to install 3rd party software and i press continue it just stays there and does nothing in forever, already tried to install inside the OS, tried to enable internet, disable 3rd party software and always the same problem, i have no idea of what else to try, any ideas?

[pnunn]

Same issue on an i7 laptop that the updater from 12.04 failed on. What is going on here? Thought this thing was ready for release? Buggered if I know what to do now. Guess reinstall 12.04.


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[pnunn]

Just as i was about to kill it, it sprang back to life and i'm pressing on.

[white]

Okay, I got it fixed, in that system i was using 12.04 and I assume for some reason when it tries to unmount/delete the HD the installer just derps and stays in an infinite loop(believe me i left it there 3 hours and nothing) Im mainly a windows person and what I did was to boot with a w7 disk and kill the partition with diskpart and aftet that installed perfectly fine, im sure any wiser linux person than me can explain how to do that from the very installer.

[bitzbox]

The first time I tried installing, I tried it straight from the boot menu of the LiveCD and I could not get into the disk partitioner at all (waited for 5 minutes). So, I then clicked on the "Cancel" button and, after the LiveCD booted, I clicked on the "Install" icon on the desktop and I was then able to install to the HDD without any problems whatsoever. There's obviously a problem with the installer (disk partitioning phase). Looks like there's lots of problems reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...y/+bug/1038522

[Fintan]

I can't even get that far on my laptop. See:
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...116#post312116

As Steve suggested on that thread I used the ubuntu-server image. works fine, albeit a bit tiresome. But I always preferred the atl-cd anyway.

Too bad I don't have a live version to show off though

[suplero]

I played around a bit on my system, and the HDD i was using had a previously installed OS on it, and 3 partitions. There was one primary partition and one extended partion, with a logical volume inside of it. I used fdisk to remove the partitions after booting into the live CD (or the partitions could be removed through other means) and ran partprobe to update the live boot configuration, and then with the live CD installer it took off without any paroblems.

Seems like the partitioner has issues when the HDD has previous partitions on it.

On a side note, trying to get encrypted LVM partitions presented very few options that I could find. There is one option to use the guided method and do an full disk encrypted LVM, but I couldn't find any way to do any manual partions with encrypted LVM through the installer. I will keep playing with this too.

The installer seems to check for existing partitions and may hang if there are some already on the install HDD. I don't know if this means that 12.10 cannot be installed beside an existing windows OS, because I don't have any to check with, but i fixed it by wiping the HDD and installing on an unparitioned HDD.

[GreyGeek]

I had something similar happen on a three year old desktop that I was asked to install Kubuntu on. It took over night to format and install the OS, but when it would boot there were disk sector errors. I ran a special HD checker program and it found that the disk had errors and that the reserve space had been exhausted. The solution? A trip to a local computer store for a good laptop.

[wrender]

I tried to install 12.10 on one of my family members laptops that had 12.04 on it and it hanged as well, but it did not proceed forward like my laptop did. This seems to be a big show stopping bug that slipped through. Will they re-release the discs so people can install?

Its a shame because 12.10 runs way better than the LTS release.

[ScottyK]

I also ran into the same problem last night. Has there been a fix posted yet? I guess one work around would be to instal 12.04, then let it do the update to 12.10

[wrender]

Yeh I too was wondering as well if they will post an updated disc/installer?

[wrender]

Not really. My laptop is a 4 year old intel core 2duo laptop with a broad spectrum of hardware mix and the other laptop is a 1 year old purely intel integrated style laptop. The only thing that is similar is they have an intel sticker on the cpu but architecture is years apart.