ubuquity crashes in 15.10

Bug #1502697 reported by SoloTurn
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Bug Description

i boot ubuntu-15.10 current (2015-10-04) from usb drive. then i attach a external drive with 4 partitions and want to install the same ubuntu on 3 partitions, one is /, one /home, one swap. the disk has a 4th partition as well. for the boot loader i chose the same drive.

i start ubuquity from terminal where i become root first:
sudo su -
ubiquity gtk_ui

ubuquity asks me the partions to use, then location, then account. after that a small window is coming for a second and ubiquity crashes. consistently since weeks.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: ubiquity 2.21.33
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-9.18-generic 3.8.1
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-9-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.19-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 4 21:32:18 2015
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-09-13 (20 days ago)

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SoloTurn (soloturn) wrote :
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SoloTurn (soloturn) wrote :

now i tried different and put an ubuntu lts-14.04 LTS on the 4th partition from windows, pendrive, i.e. an iso. i then booted this ubuntu LTS and wanted to install ubuntu on the other 3 partitions, as above. now the installer says (i cannot copy the text unfortunately ...):

failed to unmount partitions
the installer needs to commit changes to the partition tables, but cannot do so because partitions on the following mount points could not be unmounted:
/cdrom

there the installer is right, because i booted from there. but i am wondering why the installer wants to commit anything if i do not change a single one of the partitions.

root@ubuntu:~# lsof /cdrom
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/999/gvfs
      Output information may be incomplete.
root@ubuntu:~# mount | grep cdrom
/dev/sdb1 on /cdrom type vfat (ro,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)

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SoloTurn (soloturn) wrote :

not sure if this is not the same than #313452 supposedly fixed years ago ?

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SoloTurn (soloturn) wrote :

bug313452 i mean

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Bougron (francis-bougron) wrote :

This still exits in 16.04 and it is impossible to install the EFI repertory in /EFI of this partition. However it is possible to use another partition. butn after finish the installation, it is not possible to copy on these partition because
ubuntu@ubuntu:/$ ls /cdrom
ubuntu@ubuntu:/$ sudo mount -v /dev/sda1 /mnt/A
mount: /dev/sda1 is already mounted or /mnt/A busy
ubuntu@ubuntu:/$ ls /mnt/A
ubuntu@ubuntu:/$ fuser /dev/sda1
ubuntu@ubuntu:/$

For me, this solution is not good
See. http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=449892Screenshotfrom20160521124220.png

PS: I use also a USB drive to install ubuntu.
On EFI, i have a big problem: It is necessary to replace /EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi by /EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi for booting with an external drive. So i use windows10 to do this!

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Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. If you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 1502697

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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