Installation does not get past keyboard layout selection

[atroq]

When trying to install Kubuntu 8.10, after the keyboard layout selection in the installation wizard, I can see a window pop up that looks like ubiquity is scanning my partitions. After this window disappears again, I am returned to the keyboard layout selection but the Back and Next buttons are disabled, only the Quit button is still working.

This happens both if directly selecting Install when booting from the CD as well as when booting the live system and the selecting install.

These are the last entries in /var/log/messages:

Jan 3 14:33:59 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/locale = 'en_US.UTF-8'
Jan 3 14:34:00 ubuntu ubiquity[11944]: Step_before = stepLanguage
Jan 3 14:34:01 ubuntu ubiquity[11944]: switched to page stepLocation
Jan 3 14:34:03 ubuntu ubiquity[11944]: Step_before = stepLocation
Jan 3 14:34:04 ubuntu ubiquity[11944]: log-output -t ubiquity setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout de -variant deadgraveacute -option -option lv3:ralt_switch
Jan 3 14:34:04 ubuntu ubiquity[11944]: switched to page stepKeyboardConf
Jan 3 14:34:06 ubuntu ubiquity: Your console font configuration will be updated the next time your system
Jan 3 14:34:06 ubuntu ubiquity: boots. If you want to update it now, run 'setupcon' from a virtual console.
Jan 3 14:34:06 ubuntu ubiquity[11944]: log-output -t ubiquity setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout de -variant deadgraveacute -option -option
Jan 3 14:34:06 ubuntu ubiquity[11944]: Step_before = stepKeyboardConf
Jan 3 14:34:07 ubuntu kernel: [ 536.891755] program parted_devices is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
Jan 3 14:34:10 ubuntu ntfsresize: ntfsresize v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)
Jan 3 14:34:10 ubuntu ntfsresize: Device name : /dev/sda1
Jan 3 14:34:10 ubuntu ntfsresize: NTFS volume version: 3.1
Jan 3 14:34:10 ubuntu ntfsresize: Cluster size : 4096 bytes
Jan 3 14:34:10 ubuntu ntfsresize: Current volume size: 31453438464 bytes (31454 MB)
Jan 3 14:34:10 ubuntu ntfsresize: Current device size: 31453438464 bytes (31454 MB)
Jan 3 14:34:10 ubuntu ntfsresize: Checking filesystem consistency ...
Jan 3 14:34:10 ubuntu ntfsresize: Accounting clusters ...
Jan 3 14:34:10 ubuntu ntfsresize: Space in use : 21331 MB (67.8%)
Jan 3 14:34:10 ubuntu ntfsresize: Collecting resizing constraints ...
Jan 3 14:34:10 ubuntu ntfsresize: You might resize at 21330812928 bytes or 21331 MB (freeing 10123 MB).
Jan 3 14:34:10 ubuntu ntfsresize: Please make a test run using both the -n and -s options before real resizing!
Jan 3 14:34:14 ubuntu ntfsresize: ntfsresize v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)
Jan 3 14:34:14 ubuntu ntfsresize: Device name : /dev/sda1
Jan 3 14:34:14 ubuntu ntfsresize: NTFS volume version: 3.1
Jan 3 14:34:14 ubuntu ntfsresize: Cluster size : 4096 bytes
Jan 3 14:34:14 ubuntu ntfsresize: Current volume size: 31453438464 bytes (31454 MB)
Jan 3 14:34:14 ubuntu ntfsresize: Current device size: 31453438464 bytes (31454 MB)
Jan 3 14:34:14 ubuntu ntfsresize: Checking filesystem consistency ...
Jan 3 14:34:14 ubuntu ntfsresize: Accounting clusters ...
Jan 3 14:34:14 ubuntu ntfsresize: Space in use : 21331 MB (67.8%)
Jan 3 14:34:14 ubuntu ntfsresize: Collecting resizing constraints ...
Jan 3 14:34:14 ubuntu ntfsresize: You might resize at 21330812928 bytes or 21331 MB (freeing 10123 MB).
Jan 3 14:34:14 ubuntu ntfsresize: Please make a test run using both the -n and -s options before real resizing!
Jan 3 14:34:16 ubuntu ntfsresize: ntfsresize v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)
Jan 3 14:34:16 ubuntu ntfsresize: Device name : /dev/sda1
Jan 3 14:34:16 ubuntu ntfsresize: NTFS volume version: 3.1
Jan 3 14:34:16 ubuntu ntfsresize: Cluster size : 4096 bytes
Jan 3 14:34:16 ubuntu ntfsresize: Current volume size: 31453438464 bytes (31454 MB)
Jan 3 14:34:16 ubuntu ntfsresize: Current device size: 31453438464 bytes (31454 MB)
Jan 3 14:34:16 ubuntu ntfsresize: Checking filesystem consistency ...
Jan 3 14:34:16 ubuntu ntfsresize: Accounting clusters ...
Jan 3 14:34:16 ubuntu ntfsresize: Space in use : 21331 MB (67.8%)
Jan 3 14:34:16 ubuntu ntfsresize: Collecting resizing constraints ...
Jan 3 14:34:16 ubuntu ntfsresize: You might resize at 21330812928 bytes or 21331 MB (freeing 10123 MB).
Jan 3 14:34:16 ubuntu ntfsresize: Please make a test run using both the -n and -s options before real resizing!
Jan 3 14:34:17 ubuntu ubiquity: debconf: DbDriver "targetdb": could not open /target/var/cache/debconf/config.dat
Jan 3 14:34:17 ubuntu ubiquity: debconf: DbDriver "targetdb": could not open /target/var/cache/debconf/config.dat

In case this has to do with my disk and/or partition table: I am using a SATA disk; here's the partition table, with a SuSE installation on sda4 (which I intended to replace) and hardy on sda3:

fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x82da82da

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 3824 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 3825 4967 9181147+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 4968 12328 59127232+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 * 12329 19457 57263692+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 3825 4589 6144831 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 4590 4967 3036253+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

[dibl]

Re: Installation does not get past keyboard layout selection

I have the impression from the /var/log message that it is getting hung up on the NTFS partition -- it appears to be trying to install there, or resize it, for some reason.

Can you run the Live CD, and run GParted, or do you have a GParted Live CD? If it were me, I'd use GParted to reformat the /dev/sda4 partition so SUSE is cleaned off of it, and then maybe you'll need to use the Kubuntu Alternate Install CD to be able to manually point the partitioner to /dev/sda4 to use for the "/" mount point.

Also, I'm not sure why /dev/sda4 has the "boot" flag set, but if you want to boot Windows on /dev/sda1, I'm pretty sure that it will have to have the boot flag set there. Linux normally doesn't care about the boot flag, as far as I can tell.

[atroq]

Re: Installation does not get past keyboard layout selection



Thanks for your answer! The alternate install cd worked without any problems, no need even to clean the suse partition beforehand. Should have thought of that earlier, thanks again!