So, back after three new install-runs. I used report-issues this time. The install went fine up until I chose to manage the mount points. I did not chose aif to handle making partitions, because cfdisk cannot handle GPT. My settings were as follows: 1. My SSD needs two partitions: /boot on ext2 and / on ext4. Recreating both these FS's have worked 3/3 - confirmed; 2. My backup disk needed to be mounted without recreating the FS: /media/backup on ext4: worked 3/3 - although not really confirmed: it never threw an error, but maybe aif crashed before getting to this point; 3. My RAID-array needed to be mounted as a new LVM. I want the LV to take up the whole array, so I chose the value that aif showed as its capacity: 915522MiB. This failed: 0/1 Next, I tried with a value '915000MiB': this failed also: 0/2 Last, I tried with the default value of 5000: this also failed: 0/3. aif showed all three times the error 'process_filesystem error': error creating filesystem lvm-pv on /dev/sda Then it proceeded with making the FS's on /dev/sdb Then it gave me 10 iterations of the same error as above, but then with regards to lvm-vg and again lvm-pv. Then aif crashed and I reported the crash: http://sprunge.us/aMUe http://sprunge.us/jMGM (third time I forgot to do this, but the settings - except for the size of the lvm - and errors were identical). Final notice: During my second and third try, I selected 'no' to start over and not go further where the last installation had failed. Nonetheless the dialog box when creating FS's included all the messages from the previous installation-attempt.
* ERROR 3: Then I used ext4 on my sdb3, checking the option to format the partition with aif, but that failed. exiting the installer and preparing/formatting the disk manually, worked. Using aif only to set the mountpoints worked.
I really need to know the specific error to be able to fix that. maybe the device was in use because of something you were doing? (or because aif did something with it in a previous run, in which case you should have rollbacked - unless aif crashed, of course)
I did not see the same error this evening: creating the ext4 FS worked 3/3.
* ERROR 4: Next was creating an LVM on the array. It was a simple LVM: 1 primary volume, 1 logical volume and formatted as ext4. I got an error on 'making lvm-lv': 'process_filesystem needs a partition as $1'. It occurred to me later that I might have entered a partition-size that was larger than the available amount, but the installer did not warn me about that and just exited. I also found it hard to use the LVM-portion of aif.
Apparently, this was not the case for my problem. I know the RAID-5 array is 4x 320GB, of which 3x320GB should be usable. even when I chose 5000MiB, it failed. I hope the report-issues bring you more insight in this. Vincent -- Advocatenkantoor Suy, Van Baeveghem & Van Houtte Brusselsestraat 108 9200 Dendermonde T +32.52.52.06.05 F +32.52.52.06.46 W http://www.synergylaw.be