ubiquity stops installation at 'Configuring target system'

Not a ubiquity bug, it was introduced by

gnome-keyring (3.1.1-0ubuntu3) oneiric; urgency=low

[...]
  * debian/gnome-keyring.ubiquity: apply capabilities at the end of the
    ubiquity process to make sure new installs have gnome-keyring-daemon with
    cap_ipc_lock+ep.
  * debian/rules: install ubiquity target-config script.

3.1.1-0ubuntu4 fixes it.

I encountered the same thing twice with 20110803-i386 and it makes installation impossible.

Must be fixed before Alpha 3 releases.

I would like to report that the 11.10 beta2 installer blocks on 'Configuring target system' on my laptop. Is this problem back?

11.10 beta 2, 32bit dvd iso on a 8Gb USB stick using unetbootin 555 with 1024mb persistance
alongside install on 160gb unpartitioned space
updates during install and the whole lot.
out of disk space error!!!!
 then waits forever (several hours) at 'Configuring target system'

I think the bug is still there. I can't install final 11.10 because of this :(

I have the same problem, XUbuntu install hangs at "Configuring target system" and a ps-aux shows the following proceses:

$ ps aux | grep perl
root 7333 0.2 0.6 78100 25852 ? S 15:36 0:01 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/debconf-communicate -fnoninteractive ubiquity
root 7455 0.0 0.6 77784 25884 ? S 15:36 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/debconf-communicate -fnoninteractive ubiquity

Same problem, Ubuntu desktop 64-bit release hangs on "Configuring target system"

I am seeing this as well; grabbed the i386 ISO yesterday (2011-10-16), and my netbook has been sitting in "Configuring target system" for something like half an hour.

Same here with /home used at 100%. Killing the 2 perl processes and parent process stop ubiquity with an error.

same for me: it stops as follows:

log-output -t ubiquity laptop-detect

I'm installing it on a desktop

On the second attempt things went fine:

1. instead of starting Live and then Installing, I selected "Install Ubuntu Now"
2. I didn't check "Download Updates while installing"

hope this helps

This is currently marked as "Fix Released", but that's incorrect: the final ISO images for Oneiric still exhibit this bug, despite having a newer version of gnome-keyring than the one that was supposed to fix the problem.

The specific gnome-keyring related issue has been fixed. As the issue was showing up for every single install, I'm sure we'd have noticed if it was still happening.

Now, several other things could freeze your install at this point, I'd suggest you file another bug report about it, making sure to attach: /var/log/syslog /var/log/installer/debug as well as the output of "ps faux" from your live session.

Thanks

It does still happen if you choose English when starting the live cd and try to configure the target system with a different locale next, ubiquity complains it couldn't find the specific locale files and gets stuck there.

I tried installing Oneiric on an Asus EEE PC900, and at first it failed, hanging at "Configuring target system".

I tried recovering from the console, but that did not work. I checked what was happening at the time of the hang: /usr/share/ubiquity/installplugins.py was waiting for input on file descriptor 0. That file descriptor was a pipe, the other end was ubiquity. I killed installplugins.py, but then the installer (correctly) indicated that something went waywire and went into bug submission mode. Perhaps something wrong with one of the debconf sequences?

Then, I attempted to install Oneiric again. This time, I did everything the same as before, except that I did not check "upgrade packages while installing" on the start screen. This time, the installation proceeded perfectly. It seems that there is something different with one of the packages that is upgraded from the network versus the software on the CD.

I also reported this in bug #910392.

How to fix?

I haven't used Ubuntu 11.10. However, I also meet exactly the same issue in Ubuntu 12.04 Beta1.

Anyway, is there a live fix for the issue?
I mean when the installer go wrong, can we issue some commands in root shell to fix it. We can get root shell from virtual terminals. Ctrl+Alt+Fn (n=1,2,...,6)

I am installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I am stuck at "Configuring target system..." too. Please help. Thanks!