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ubiquity package

Re-Installation of 12.10 from live usb crashes

Bug #1076405 reported by M B on 2012-11-08

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	Expired	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

Upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 previously failed due to the installer crashing, attempts to complete installation post-crash failed, as Ubuntu didn't recognise the network or audio devices.

Tried to re-install from a Live USB, which crashed on trying to install ubiquity. I've attached syslog.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: ubiquity 2.12.16
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.328
Date: Thu Nov 8 13:52:20 2012
InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper persistent initrd=/casper/initrd.lz splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.2)
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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M B (fragrat) wrote on 2012-11-08:

#1

syslog Edit (477.6 KiB, text/plain)
Casper.txt Edit (3.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (7.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (111 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityDm.txt Edit (5.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityPartman.txt Edit (218.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquitySyslog.txt Edit (386.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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M B (fragrat) wrote on 2012-11-08:

#2

Tried to erase existing Ubuntu 12.10 and install, that failed too, during the same "detecting hardware" stage.

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2012-11-21: Traceback

#3

Exception during installation:
Nov 8 13:49:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Nov 8 13:49:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1732, in <module>
Nov 8 13:49:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Nov 8 13:49:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 81, in wrapper
Nov 8 13:49:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Nov 8 13:49:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 229, in run
Nov 8 13:49:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.configure_hardware()
Nov 8 13:49:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 863, in configure_hardware
Nov 8 13:49:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: "HwDetect failed with code %d" % ret)
Nov 8 13:49:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: ubiquity.install_misc.InstallStepError: HwDetect failed with code 2
Nov 8 13:49:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

tags:	added: installer-crash
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High

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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote on 2020-03-05:

#5

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

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

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2020-05-05:

#6

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

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

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