Ubuntu
ubiquity package

Installer Crashed report when installing grub

Bug #145136 reported by fynx on 2007-09-26

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

raceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 166, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 163, in main
    install()
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 57, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 305, in run
    self.process_step()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 856, in process_step
    self.progress_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 628, in progress_loop
    raise RuntimeError, ("Install failed with exit code %s\n%s" %
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1404, in ?
    install.run()
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 385, in run
    self.configure_bootloader()
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1163, in configure_bootloader
    raise InstallStepError(
InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1

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fynx (p-r-gregory) wrote on 2007-09-26:

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fynx (p-r-gregory) wrote on 2007-09-26:

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TerryG (tgalati4) wrote on 2008-02-26:

Triaged to Confirmed. The only thing that I noticed in the log files was that GRUB was already installed and thus not reinstalled. I wonder if there was an older version of GRUB installed and ubiquity relied on it to finish the installation and it failed because of an incompatibility. I'm marking this as Confirmed, because it could be a serious bug or lack of GRUB version check before proceeding.

Changed in ubiquity:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2008-07-27:

The previous commenter is rather confused. This doesn't actually have anything to do with GRUB - that's just collateral damage.

This is essentially a nUbuntu bug. They don't preinstall the console-setup package on the live CD, which Ubiquity needs. Please report this to them if they don't have a more recent version available.