Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
Justification: after crashing, installer hangs starting partitioning task
Boot method: CD
Image version: installer build 20070109-03:51
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2200+
Memory: 1GB
Partitions:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 58688 471411328+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda3 58689 60777 16779892+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 * 60778 60801 192780 83 Linux
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Overall install: [O]
Comments/Problems:
Dragging GUI elements in the graphical installer can lead to a crash of the
partitioning step. When this happens, the installer attempts to restart the
task with "Starting up the partitioner" but hangs about mid-way through the
status bar. Dragging a line appears to confirm or merge its actions with the
target (dropping a line onto itself seems to select and confirm the action,
which could be dangerous).
This has happened to me at multiple screens within the partitioner, I will
follow up with exact lines to reproduce, I believe dragging the first hard
drive line onto the blank line above triggers this.
The error printed on VC1 after the crash is
(partially): "gtk_text_view_start_selection_drag: assertion failed: text
view -> selection_drag_handler == 0"
Joel Johnson