Hangs on installation... (SOLVED)

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killer de bug

Re: Hangs on installation...

Post by killer de bug »

It's nice if it helps you to install.

But we still don't know what is causing this bug. And this is the most important :?
uncleguido

Re: Hangs on installation...

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killer de bug wrote:It's nice if it helps you to install.

But we still don't know what is causing this bug. And this is the most important :?
Yeah it is nice I can install now but did you get anything out of the error messages I've posted for you?
Thanks
killer de bug

Re: Hangs on installation...

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Unfortunately not. I have just seen that you had exactly the same error than previously posted.
You have an UEFI system? With secure boot enabled?
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Re: Hangs on installation...

Post by uncleguido »

killer de bug wrote:Unfortunately not. I have just seen that you had exactly the same error than previously posted.
You have an UEFI system? With secure boot enabled?

Ha ha!! I'm not to sure. Do I check that in my bios?
ajyotirmay

LMDE 2 Betsy installation problem

Post by ajyotirmay »

I've been trying to setup besty on my laptop, the liveCD is up and running perfectly but when I launch the installer, after filling in my username and other personal records it freezes. It just doesn't moves on from there even if I left it for several minutes.
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Re: LMDE 2 Betsy installation problem

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This seems to be the same problem as reported here: Hangs on installation .... - Post will be moved to that thread. - Done.
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Re: Hangs on installation...

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tenfoot wrote:
Monsta wrote:
tenfoot wrote:The computer is a Dell desktop with a 500GB HDD.This is partitioned into sda and sdb: sda has Windows7 and sdb is partitioned for LMDE2-Betsy. A screenshot of both partitions is attached - I hope!
Thanks for posting the screenshots in addition to fdisk output.
I still can't reproduce the issue and don't know what might be causing it, so I'll have to ask you for an experiment.
I see you have two physical HDDs. If you don't mind and have some time to do it, disconnect one of them (I mean, unplug both power and data cables) and run the installer again. No need to actually install Betsy, just check if the installer still freezes at the account screen or proceeds to the partitions screen.
Then connect that HDD back and disconnect the other one, and do the same check again.

Thanks, Monsta. I'll do as you suggest but it may be some time before I get back to you as "real" life is getting in the way of my interests at present :lol:
My apologies for the long delay. I was certain that I had replied to this post within a week but canot find my answer, so must assume that my memory is at fault.

I did as you suggested but the result was the same whichever hard disc I had connected: the installer freezes at the same point.

In the meantime, I've given up on this issue and just await for a solution from the developers.
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Re: Hangs on installation...

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killer de bug wrote:Is this solving your problem?
Oddly enough, I managed to overcome this problem by stopping the installer in terminal via Ctrl+C... and then it magically unfroze and continued to the disk selection screen.

Thank you! I had exactly the same problem and never was able to fix this error. I will install LMDE 2 immediately as I prefer it to regular mint.
bitbox

Re: Hangs on installation...

Post by bitbox »

Just to confirm that the LMDE 2 - Cinammon - 64bit iso currently available for download at http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php still presents this problem (as of today!: July 22 2015).

The "stopping the installer in terminal via Ctrl+C" trick does permit to bypass this flaw, but it feels so sad to me that such a beautiful piece of work as LMDE 2 might present itself with such a bad "user experience" in the very first steps of its installation. I mean it would be too bad that someone interested in the Linux Mint Debian Edition experience, probably driven by the many excellent reviews LMDE, and thus LMDE 2, has all around the web, would be faced with having to execute such a hackish operation (for newcomers anyway) to be able to test-run LMDE 2.

I've experienced exactly what was described in all the previous posts in this thread, so I won't copy/paste outputs that are totally similar to what has already been seen. One thing that might be of interest to whom it may concern is that I was installing LMDE 2 on an external SSD, hooked through a SATA/USB3 adapter connection to a Clevo W150HR laptop.

Another relatively annoying point for me was that I wanted to have my /home partition configured as a LVM2 logical volume. Although all my LVM2 logical volumes were created (through the command line), I found no way of accessing them in the LMDE 2 installer, to select one as my /home partition that is. Once again not a fundamental problem but a little glitch that might stop some people from going further and discover the wonders of LMDE...
By the way, could anyone tell me where I should post this last remark to suggest a future enhancement of the installer ?

LMDE certainly deserves to get much traction as it stands, in my opinion anyway, as one of, if not THE most accessible, stable and polished Linux distribution available today, it being Debian (8) based making it particularly stand out. Having less experienced newcomers repelled by small glitches in the first moments of their experience with LMDE would be a pity in my eyes.

Thank you.
lossendae

Re: Hangs on installation...

Post by lossendae »

Hi everyone,

I just encountered the same issue on a fresh install with an USB key.
After searching for hours, I finally stumbled on this topic and tried the installer launched via the command line followed by Ctrl + C when the installer stalled on User informations step.
And it worked... the install process could go through.

Here is the command line output :

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mint@mint ~ $ gksu live-installer
Error adding locale 'awk: warning: escape sequence `\.' treated as plain `.''
Error adding locale 'ayc_PE'
Error adding locale 'brx_IN'
Error adding locale 'cmn_TW'
Error adding locale 'hak_TW'
Error adding locale 'hne_IN'
Error adding locale 'iw_IL'
Error adding locale 'lij_IT'
Error adding locale 'lzh_TW'
Error adding locale 'mhr_RU'
Error adding locale 'nan_TW'
Error adding locale 'nhn_MX'
Error adding locale 'pap_AN'
Error adding locale 'quz_PE'
Error adding locale 'shs_CA'
Error adding locale 'szl_PL'
Error adding locale 'the_NP'
Error adding locale 'unm_US'
Error adding locale 'wae_CH'
Error adding locale 'yue_HK'
Timezone: Europe/Paris (UTC+0200) (377, 143)
Color: #552200, Image: timezone_1.0.png
Excluding /dev/sdb (detected as the live device)
Can't find model in blkid output: ['loop', 'loop0', '0', '1.3G']
Disks:  [('/dev/sda', 'HGST HTS721010A9 (1000 Go)')]
^C
mint@mint ~ $ 
This my third installation with the same key/iso, and the first time it hanged like that.
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Re: Hangs on installation...

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Hi,

If you're affected by this bug, please try the following version of the installer and report the terminal output?

https://github.com/linuxmint/live-insta ... 03_all.deb

It's the same version but with additional debugging info/traces being written. That should give us a more precise idea of exactly where in the code the installer is hanging.

To try it:
- Launch the live session as usual
- Download the deb file and install it
- Launch the installer from the command line (we're interested in the output, especially how far it gets before hanging) with "sudo live-installer"

Thanks in advance for taking the time to help us fix this bug.
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Re: Hangs on installation...

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Installed the new live-installer and attempted install of LMDE2 x64 MATE.

Terminal output was

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 mint@mint ~ $ live-installer
Error adding locale 'awk: warning: escape sequence `\.' treated as plain `.''
Error adding locale 'ayc_PE'
Error adding locale 'brx_IN'
Error adding locale 'cmn_TW'
Error adding locale 'hak_TW'
Error adding locale 'hne_IN'
Error adding locale 'iw_IL'
Error adding locale 'lij_IT'
Error adding locale 'lzh_TW'
Error adding locale 'mhr_RU'
Error adding locale 'nan_TW'
Error adding locale 'nhn_MX'
Error adding locale 'pap_AN'
Error adding locale 'quz_PE'
Error adding locale 'shs_CA'
Error adding locale 'szl_PL'
Error adding locale 'the_NP'
Error adding locale 'unm_US'
Error adding locale 'wae_CH'
Error adding locale 'yue_HK'
/usr/lib/live-installer/frontend/gtk_interface.py:660: Warning: Source ID 4294967295 was not found when attempting to remove it
  glib.source_remove(self.kbd_preview_generation)  # stop previous preview generation, if any
java version "1.7.0_75"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.5.4) (7u75-2.5.4-2)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.75-b04, mixed mode)
Timezone: Pacific/Auckland (UTC+1200) (760, 349)
Color: #ffcc00, Image: timezone_12.0.png
Starting PartitionSetup()
Excluding /dev/sr (detected as the live device)
Can't find model in blkid output: ['loop', 'loop0', '0', '1.3G']
Disks:  [('/dev/sda', 'ST3160023AS (159 GB)'), ('/dev/sdb', 'ST3500641AS (500 GB)'), ('/dev/sdc', 'Removable: Flash Disk (131 MB)')]
    Analyzing path='/dev/sda' description='ST3160023AS (159 GB)'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/live-installer/frontend/gtk_interface.py", line 796, in wizard_cb
    partitioning.build_partitions(self)
  File "/usr/lib/live-installer/partitioning.py", line 66, in build_partitions
    partition_setup = PartitionSetup()
  File "/usr/lib/live-installer/partitioning.py", line 229, in __init__
    disk_device = parted.getDevice(disk_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/parted/decorators.py", line 41, in new
    ret = fn(*args, **kwds)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/parted/__init__.py", line 373, in getDevice
    return Device(path=path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/parted/decorators.py", line 41, in new
    ret = fn(*args, **kwds)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/parted/device.py", line 54, in __init__
    self.__device = _ped.device_get(path)
_ped.IOException: Error opening /dev/sda: Permission denied
Showing ErrorDialog (<b>The installer failed with t ...)
mint@mint ~ $ 
Hope this helps to solve the problem.

Edit 19:09 NZ 06 Sep 2015

Typed "Exit" in Terminal to close window and got the following output

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 exit
      - Found partitions...
      - Iterating partitions...
        . Appending partition /dev/sda1...
        . Appending partition /dev/sda2...
      - Loading HTML view...
    Analyzing path='/dev/sdb' description='ST3500641AS (500 GB)'
      - Found the device...
      - Found the disk...
      - Looking at partitions...
bash: /tmp/live-installer/tmpmount/etc/lsb-release: No such file or directory
mount: unknown filesystem type 'swap'
mount: special device /dev/sdb-1 does not exist
df: ‘/dev/sdb-1’: No such file or directory
WARNING: Partition /dev/sdb-1 or type 4 failed to mount!
      - Found partitions...
      - Iterating partitions...
        . Appending partition /dev/sdb1...
        . Appending partition /dev/sdb2...
        . Appending partition ...
      - Loading HTML view...
    Analyzing path='/dev/sdd' description='Removable: Flash Disk (131 MB)'
      - Found the device...
      - Found the disk...
      - Looking at partitions...
mount: /dev/sdd1 is already mounted or /tmp/live-installer/tmpmount busy
       /dev/sdd1 is already mounted on /media/mint/1142-2FC0
      - Found partitions...
      - Iterating partitions...
        . Appending partition /dev/sdd1...
      - Loading HTML view...
Finished PartitionSetup()
Loading HTML string
Showing the partition screen
main.py: Fatal IO error 0 (Success) on X server :0.0.
mint@mint ~ $ 
Don't know whether this additional information is of any use but include it, just in case :?
Last edited by tenfoot on Sun Sep 06, 2015 3:07 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Hangs on installation...

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That looks like a permission problem.. can you use sudo in front of the command?

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sudo live-installer
PS: If you get the same error, please give me more info about your sda disk (partition table type if any, partition layout etc..).
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Re: Hangs on installation...

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Anyone here able to help with this similar problem?

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=198568
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Re: Hangs on installation...

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clem wrote:That looks like a permission problem.. can you use sudo in front of the command?

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sudo live-installer
PS: If you get the same error, please give me more info about your sda disk (partition table type if any, partition layout etc..).

did as you suggested and the output from the Terminal is:


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 mint@mint ~ $ sudo live-installer
Error adding locale 'awk: warning: escape sequence `\.' treated as plain `.''
Error adding locale 'ayc_PE'
Error adding locale 'brx_IN'
Error adding locale 'cmn_TW'
Error adding locale 'hak_TW'
Error adding locale 'hne_IN'
Error adding locale 'iw_IL'
Error adding locale 'lij_IT'
Error adding locale 'lzh_TW'
Error adding locale 'mhr_RU'
Error adding locale 'nan_TW'
Error adding locale 'nhn_MX'
Error adding locale 'pap_AN'
Error adding locale 'quz_PE'
Error adding locale 'shs_CA'
Error adding locale 'szl_PL'
Error adding locale 'the_NP'
Error adding locale 'unm_US'
Error adding locale 'wae_CH'
Error adding locale 'yue_HK'
/usr/lib/live-installer/frontend/gtk_interface.py:660: Warning: Source ID 4294967295 was not found when attempting to remove it
  glib.source_remove(self.kbd_preview_generation)  # stop previous preview generation, if any
java version "1.7.0_75"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.5.4) (7u75-2.5.4-2)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.75-b04, mixed mode)
Timezone: Pacific/Auckland (UTC+1200) (760, 349)
Color: #ffcc00, Image: timezone_12.0.png
Starting PartitionSetup()
Excluding /dev/sr (detected as the live device)
Can't find model in blkid output: ['loop', 'loop0', '0', '1.3G']
Disks:  [('/dev/sda', 'ST3160023AS (159 GB)'), ('/dev/sdb', 'ST3500641AS (500 GB)'), ('/dev/sdc', 'Removable: Flash Disk (131 MB)')]
    Analyzing path='/dev/sda' description='ST3160023AS (159 GB)'
      - Found the device...
      - Found the disk...
      - Looking at partitions...
Caution: invalid main GPT header, but valid backup; regenerating main header
from backup!

Warning! Main partition table CRC mismatch! Loaded backup partition table
instead of main partition table!

Warning! One or more CRCs don't match. You should repair the disk! 
Details of the computer I am using:

Processor:GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Memory: 2008 MB
Operating System: LinuxMint
Audio: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High
Graphic: NVIDIA Corporation G71 [GeForce 7950 GT] (rev a1)
Monitor: LG Electronics W2343 23" LCD with native resolution of 1920 x 1080 at 60Hz

The computer has 1 x 500GB HD, which is partitioned for Windows 7 Home Premium on sda and currently antergos on sdb. It is antergos I wish to replace.

Hopefully, screenshots of sda and sdb are attached.
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Re: Hangs on installation...

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stevog6 wrote:Anyone here able to help with this similar problem?

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=198568
It's a different problem as it's a different installer. Main edition uses modified Ubiquity (Ubuntu's installer) while LMDE uses its own installer.
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Re: Hangs on installation...

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Thanks, we now have a better idea of where thing are hanging, but we still need a tiny bit more info to understand why it's happening.

I added even more tracing info. Can you use the following installer: https://github.com/linuxmint/live-insta ... 15_all.deb

To try it:
- Launch the live session as usual
- Download the deb file above and install it
- Launch the installer from the command line (we're interested in the output, especially how far it gets before hanging) with "sudo live-installer"
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Re: Hangs on installation...

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clem wrote:Thanks, we now have a better idea of where thing are hanging, but we still need a tiny bit more info to understand why it's happening.

I added even more tracing info. Can you use the following installer: https://github.com/linuxmint/live-insta ... 15_all.deb

To try it:
- Launch the live session as usual
- Download the deb file above and install it
- Launch the installer from the command line (we're interested in the output, especially how far it gets before hanging) with "sudo live-installer"
Attention: Clem

Thank you for the updated live-installer.

Opened terminal and typed sudo live-installer and the output was, firstly, as in the previous attempt (see my last post)

For some reason, I then hit Enter twice and the terminal output continued and then the partition screen appeared.

The total output of the terminal is given below

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mint@mint ~ $ sudo live-installer
Error adding locale 'awk: warning: escape sequence `\.' treated as plain `.''
Error adding locale 'ayc_PE'
Error adding locale 'brx_IN'
Error adding locale 'cmn_TW'
Error adding locale 'hak_TW'
Error adding locale 'hne_IN'
Error adding locale 'iw_IL'
Error adding locale 'lij_IT'
Error adding locale 'lzh_TW'
Error adding locale 'mhr_RU'
Error adding locale 'nan_TW'
Error adding locale 'nhn_MX'
Error adding locale 'pap_AN'
Error adding locale 'quz_PE'
Error adding locale 'shs_CA'
Error adding locale 'szl_PL'
Error adding locale 'the_NP'
Error adding locale 'unm_US'
Error adding locale 'wae_CH'
Error adding locale 'yue_HK'
/usr/lib/live-installer/frontend/gtk_interface.py:660: Warning: Source ID 4294967295 was not found when attempting to remove it
  glib.source_remove(self.kbd_preview_generation)  # stop previous preview generation, if any
java version "1.7.0_75"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.5.4) (7u75-2.5.4-2)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.75-b04, mixed mode)
Timezone: Pacific/Auckland (UTC+1200) (760, 349)
Color: #ffcc00, Image: timezone_12.0.png
Starting PartitionSetup()
Excluding /dev/sdc (detected as the live device)
Can't find model in blkid output: ['loop', 'loop0', '0', '1.3G']
Disks:  [('/dev/sda', 'ST3160023AS (159 GB)'), ('/dev/sdb', 'ST3500641AS (500 GB)'), ('/dev/sdd', 'Removable: USB DISK 2.0 (31 GB)')]
    Analyzing path='/dev/sda' description='ST3160023AS (159 GB)'
      - Found the device...
      - Found the disk...
      - Looking at partitions...
           -> 2 free space partitions
           -> 2 primary partitions
           -> 0 logical partitions
           -> 0 raid partitions
           -> 0 LVM partitions
           -> set of 4 partitions
              -> Building partition object for /dev/sda1
                  . length 204800
                  . size_percent 1
                  . size 104.9 MB
                  . name /dev/sda1
                  . type ntfs
                  . About to mount it...
                  . size 102396, free 77160, self.used_percent 25%, mount_point /tmp/live-installer/tmpmount
                  . About to find more about it...
Caution: invalid main GPT header, but valid backup; regenerating main header
from backup!

Warning! Main partition table CRC mismatch! Loaded backup partition table
instead of main partition table!

Warning! One or more CRCs don't match. You should repair the disk!

          
                  . self.description Windows bootloader/recovery self.os_fs_info : Windows bootloader/recovery (ntfs; 104.9 MB; 79.0 MB)
                  . umounting it
                  . done
              -> Building partition object for /dev/sda2
                  . length 312289280
                  . size_percent 79
                  . size 159.9 GB
                  . name /dev/sda2
                  . type ntfs
                  . About to mount it...
                  . size 156144636, free 123454396, self.used_percent 21%, mount_point /tmp/live-installer/tmpmount
                  . About to find more about it...
Caution: invalid main GPT header, but valid backup; regenerating main header
from backup!

Warning! Main partition table CRC mismatch! Loaded backup partition table
instead of main partition table!

Warning! One or more CRCs don't match. You should repair the disk!


                  . self.description Windows 7 self.os_fs_info : Windows 7 (ntfs; 159.9 GB; 126.4 GB)
                  . umounting it
                  . done
      - Found partitions...
      - Iterating partitions...
        . Appending partition /dev/sda1...
        . Appending partition /dev/sda2...
      - Loading HTML view...
    Analyzing path='/dev/sdb' description='ST3500641AS (500 GB)'
      - Found the device...
      - Found the disk...
      - Looking at partitions...
           -> 2 free space partitions
           -> 2 primary partitions
           -> 0 logical partitions
           -> 0 raid partitions
           -> 0 LVM partitions
           -> set of 4 partitions
              -> Building partition object for /dev/sdb1
                  . length 61440000
                  . size_percent 5
                  . size 31.5 GB
                  . name /dev/sdb1
                  . type ext4
                  . About to mount it...
                  . size 30106576, free 23885392, self.used_percent 17%, mount_point /tmp/live-installer/tmpmount
                  . About to find more about it...
                  . self.description LMDE 2 MATE 64-bit self.os_fs_info : LMDE 2 MATE 64-bit (ext4; 30.8 GB; 24.5 GB)
                  . umounting it
                  . done
              -> Building partition object for /dev/sdb2
                  . length 4194304
                  . size_percent 1
                  . size 2.1 GB
                  . name /dev/sdb2
                  . type swap
                  . About to mount it...
mount: unknown filesystem type 'swap'
                  . value error!
                  . self.os_fs_info : swap, self.description swap, self.free_space , self.used_percent 0
                  . umounting it
                  . done
              -> Building partition object for /dev/sdb-1
                  . length 911131713
                  . size_percent 74
                  . size 466.5 GB
                  . name 
                  . type Free space
                  . About to mount it...
mount: special device /dev/sdb-1 does not exist
df: ‘/dev/sdb-1’: No such file or directory
                  . value error!
WARNING: Partition /dev/sdb-1 or type 4 failed to mount!
                  . self.os_fs_info : Free space, self.description , self.free_space , self.used_percent 0
                  . umounting it
                  . done
      - Found partitions...
      - Iterating partitions...
        . Appending partition /dev/sdb1...
        . Appending partition /dev/sdb2...
        . Appending partition ...
      - Loading HTML view...
    Analyzing path='/dev/sdd' description='Removable: USB DISK 2.0 (31 GB)'
      - Found the device...
      - Found the disk...
      - Looking at partitions...
           -> 1 free space partitions
           -> 1 primary partitions
           -> 0 logical partitions
           -> 0 raid partitions
           -> 0 LVM partitions
           -> set of 2 partitions
              -> Building partition object for /dev/sdd1
                  . length 62546048
                  . size_percent 80
                  . size 32.0 GB
                  . name /dev/sdd1
                  . type fat32
                  . About to mount it...
mount: /dev/sdd1 is already mounted or /tmp/live-installer/tmpmount busy
       /dev/sdd1 is already mounted on /media/mint/USB DISK
                  . size 31260704, free 4558592, self.used_percent 86%, mount_point /media/mint/USB
                  . About to find more about it...
                  . self.description  self.os_fs_info : fat32
                  . umounting it
                  . done
      - Found partitions...
      - Iterating partitions...
        . Appending partition /dev/sdd1...
      - Loading HTML view...
Finished PartitionSetup()
Loading HTML string
Showing the partition screen 
I was able to continue the installation without problems and am currently applying all the updates.

The only downside at the moment is that the monitor maximum display is 2048 x 768 and I cannot find the nVidia drivers in the menu. Are they there as in the Main edition of Mint? If not, do I have to download it from nVidia?.
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Re: Hangs on installation...

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Thanks tenfoot,

In the output that you pasted here... can you indicate "where" you pressed RETURN?

In other words, I need to know exactly when it hangs... i.e. how much of the output is written before it does.

With that info I can understand which of the partitions it hangs on, and at which step of the code.

If you don't remember, please run the installer again, and paste the output when it hangs.. but without pressing ENTER.
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Re: Hangs on installation...

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Actually, don't bother.. I just found out.

We're calling "gdisk -l /dev/sda" at some stage and I'm pretty sure that hangs on your computer. You can try and run it directly in the live session to see if you can catch why it's waiting for you to type something on the keyboard.
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