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ubiquity package

migration assistant fails installation

Bug #135656 reported by Nanley Chery on 2007-08-29

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #135149: [gutsy] failed to unmount migrationassistant. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	migration-assistant (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Summary:
I tried to install Gutsy Tribe 5 on my HP Pavilion desktop. The installation goes up to 88% at: Installing system (Importing documents and settings...), then closes without warning. All that's left on the desktop are the default icons and the drives: "/target" and "/mnt/migrationassistant". When inspecting "/target," it seems that all files have been installed. But after restarting the PC, I boot up into feisty.

Conclusion:
Migration assistant failed, thus preventing grub from installing and Gutsy itself.

See original description

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Nanley Chery (nanoman) wrote on 2007-08-29: Workaround

I was able to work around this bug by disabling migration assistant

Nanley Chery (nanoman) on 2007-09-01

description:

updated

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Nanley Chery (nanoman) wrote on 2007-09-01:

I think someone should confirm this bug as i believe the same thing happened here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3291324

Nanley Chery (nanoman) on 2007-09-01

Changed in ubiquity:
status:	New → Invalid

Nanley Chery (nanoman) on 2007-09-01

Changed in ubiquity:
status:	Invalid → New

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Evan (ev) wrote on 2007-09-04:

Please run the installer again using the --debug option, and attach /var/log/syslog and /var/log/installer/debug to this bug report. Thanks!

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Nanley Chery (nanoman) wrote on 2007-09-08:

syslog Edit (174.7 KiB, text/plain)

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Nanley Chery (nanoman) wrote on 2007-09-08:

debug Edit (1.5 MiB, text/plain)

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Nanley Chery (nanoman) wrote on 2007-09-08:

Screenshot.png Edit (327.5 KiB, image/png)

During the installation, I arrived at the screen to input my name, user name, password, ,etc, but nothing happened. (So if there are any weird errors in the log, that may be the cause).

After trying the installation another time, I was warned that migration assistant couldn't mount a partition. I have a screenshot attached. When I clicked "continue", the installation completed gracefully. I don't know if I clicked "go back" before.

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Nanley Chery (nanoman) wrote on 2007-09-08:

My problem is very similar to bug 135149 and it's duplicate.