unable to install the selected kernel with oneiric-alternate-i386 20110616.1

Binary package hint: debian-installer

With 20110616.1 Ubuntu Alternate i386

The installer stops with an error "Unable to install the selected kernel"
The following error is displayed in syslog:
"""
Jun 16 15:50:12 in-target: The following extra packages will be installed:
Jun 16 15:50:12 in-target: linux-firmware linux-image-3.0-0-generic linux-image-generic wireless-crda
Jun 16 15:50:12 in-target: Suggested packages:
Jun 16 15:50:12 in-target: fdutils linux-doc-3.0 linux-source-3.0 linux-tools
Jun 16 15:50:12 in-target: Recommended packages:
Jun 16 15:50:12 in-target: grub-pc grub lilo
Jun 16 15:50:12 in-target: The following NEW packages will be installed:
Jun 16 15:50:12 in-target: linux-firmware linux-generic linux-image-3.0-0-generic linux-image-generic
Jun 16 15:50:12 in-target: wireless-crda
Jun 16 15:50:12 in-target: Can't locate object method "new" via package "Text::Iconv" (perhaps you forgot to load "Text::Iconv"?) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 65, <GEN2> line 3.
Jun 16 15:50:12 in-target: Use of uninitialized value $ret in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm line 132, <STDIN> line 2.
Jun 16 15:50:12 in-target: Use of uninitialized value $ret in split at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm line 133, <STDIN> line 2.
Jun 16 15:50:12 in-target: Use of uninitialized value $ret[0] in string eq at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm line 134, <STDIN> line 2.
Jun 16 15:50:12 in-target: Use of uninitialized value $ret[0] in string eq at /usr/bin/debconf-apt-progress line 181, <STDIN> line 2.
Jun 16 15:50:14 in-target: E
Jun 16 15:50:14 in-target: :
Jun 16 15:50:14 in-target: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
Jun 16 15:50:14 in-target:
Jun 16 15:50:14 in-target: E
Jun 16 15:50:14 in-target: :
Jun 16 15:50:14 in-target: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
Jun 16 15:50:14 in-target:
Jun 16 15:50:14 base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer/kernel/failed-install
"""

syslog attached

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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: debian-installer (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-0.1-generic 3.0.0-rc2
Uname: Linux 3.0-0-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jun 16 18:12:55 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. U3SG
MemoryUsage:
 total used free shared buffers cached
 Mem: 3090096 2889400 200696 0 18184 1222900
 -/+ buffers/cache: 1648316 1441780
 Swap: 5855688 823512 5032176
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0-0-generic root=UUID=75f23f17-3ace-4485-af57-a7318eb6c2ff ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-05-16 (30 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 01/28/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 305
dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.board.name: U3SG
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr305:bd01/28/2008:svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnU3SG:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnU3SG:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: U3SG
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.