Bug 445540

Summary:	installation of kde neon throws non-debugable errors at start of installation progress when creating partitions
Product:	[KDE Neon] neon	Reporter:	hacknorris
Component:	Live/Install images	Assignee:	Neon Bugs <neon-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO
Severity:	crash	CC:	hacknorris, jr, matthias, neon-bugs, sitter
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	additional screenshot of error

Description hacknorris 2021-11-15 16:48:59 UTC

Created attachment 143589 [details]
additional screenshot of error

SUMMARY
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. put iso image on pendrive
2. boot this pendrive
3. (cause otherwise its also not possible to select partition): go to kde partition manager and unmount all mounted-by-default partitions
4. try to install neon via desktop icon
5. complete installer. my data:
language - default
date/time - poland (i just want to have current time), same thing for keyboard
partitioning (!important) - select partition to override - ext4 partition (at me there was arch previously but it got formatted)
user , password - both setted up
6. confirm installation
7. you land with :
```
The installer failed to create partition on disk 'xxxxx'.
==========================================================================================
Create a new partition (xx.xx GiB, ext4) on ‘/dev/sdx’
==========================================================================================
==========================================================================================
Job: Create new partition on device ‘/dev/sdx’
==========================================================================================
Command: e2fsck -f -y -v /dev/sdxy
==========================================================================================
```

OBSERVED RESULT

system installator stops even before installing system throwing error

EXPECTED RESULT

moving progressbar to right and properly installing system on selected partition 

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS:
Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.88.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.11.0-38-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i3-8130U CPU @ 2.20GHz
Memory: 7.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

note: repeating action few times didnt solved problem. didnt yet rebooted system

+ image on site is a little old as discover also throws kernel + software updates :/

Comment 1 hacknorris 2022-02-24 19:35:09 UTC

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALmUd-C-8uA

Comment 2 Matthias Mailänder 2022-03-18 20:26:10 UTC

My error message looks just slightly different

> Create a new partition (238,42 GiB, extended) on ‘/dev/nvme0n1’
> Job: Create new partition on device ‘/dev/nvme0n1’
> Command: sfdisk --force --append /dev/nvme0n1
> Failed to add partition ‘New Partition’ to device ‘/dev/nvme0n1’.
> Failed to add partition ‘New Partition’ to device ‘/dev/nvme0n1’.

I installed GParted which had no trouble creating a new ext4 partition.

Comment 3 Carlos De Maine 2025-09-20 09:35:45 UTC

Thank you for your bug report! 
However this bug report was created/provided previous to 01/01/2023 and also has not received any updates since  before 01/01/2025. 
Unfortunately KDE neon no longer provides updates for anything older than noble 24.04 based edition's.
Please upgrade to KDE neon noble and if you can reproduce the issue after upgrading to an active version, feel free to re-open this bug report.
Thanks for understanding!