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ubiquity package

Installation fails after manual partitioning

Bug #48328 reported by Kyle Wall on 2006-06-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #47046: breaks if system partitions are not reformatted. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	New	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 130, in ?
    install(sys.argv[1])
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 55, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 266, in run
    self.process_step()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 741, in process_step
    self.mountpoints_to_summary()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 1029, in mountpoints_to_summary
    self.progress_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 538, in progress_loop
    raise RuntimeError, ("Install failed with exit code %s; see "
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1; see /var/log/installer/syslog and /var/log/syslog

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Kyle Wall (klwall) wrote on 2006-06-04: Syslog attached

Syslog attached Edit (18.4 KiB, text/plain)

Installer syslog

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Kyle Wall (klwall) wrote on 2006-06-04: /var/log/syslog

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Kyle Wall (klwall) wrote on 2006-06-04: /var/log/partman

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2006-06-05:

Thanks for your report. At present, you must reformat system partitions (e.g. /, /boot, /usr, or /var) during installation; bug 47046 is filed to note that the partitioner should warn you about this up-front. If you are upgrading an existing installation, then please see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperUpgrades rather than using this installer.

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Philip (rocketman768) wrote on 2006-07-24:

Colin, I do not believe that's the problem. I have the exact same error, and I chose options to reformat / and /boot, but the installer still crashes at 96% when "configuring boot loader." This is extremely annoying and a HUGE bug. I will have to go pick my breezy cd out of the trash now. Why unconfirmed?? Many people are having this problem.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2006-07-24:

Philip, although your bug superficially looks the same as this one, I can assure you based upon considerable knowledge and experience that many different bugs exhibit the same symptoms. See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperReleaseNotes/UbiquityKnownIssues for known issues and workarounds that can cause bugs that look like that. At a guess, yours is the XFS problem; this will be corrected in the first point release of Dapper.

This bug is unconfirmed because (a) it's a duplicate and bug statuses are meaningless in that case and (b) I ignore the unconfirmed/confirmed distinction on my own bugs so setting it is largely a waste of time. Don't get too worked up about that.

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Andrew Muller (mullera) wrote on 2006-07-24: Re: [Bug 48328] Re: Installation fails after manual partitioning

Philip

I received this note that was intended for Colin. I filed a bug report
but am not technically able to contribute to the resolution.

best wishes

Andrew Muller

On Mon, 2006-24-07 at 04:56 +0000, Philip wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 47046 ***
>
> Colin, I do not believe that's the problem. I have the exact same error,
> and I chose options to reformat / and /boot, but the installer still
> crashes at 96% when "configuring boot loader." This is extremely
> annoying and a HUGE bug. I will have to go pick my breezy cd out of the
> trash now. Why unconfirmed?? Many people are having this problem.
>

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Andrew Muller (mullera) wrote on 2006-07-24:

Dear Colin

I have been receiving a lot of e-mails from you that appear to be
directed to someone else. I hope they are getting through to him.
Although I filed a bug report about this I am not able to help out in
resolving it. Thank you and all the others working on this wonderful
distribution

best wishes
Andrew Muller

On Mon, 2006-24-07 at 09:24 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 47046 ***
>
> Philip, although your bug superficially looks the same as this one, I
> can assure you based upon considerable knowledge and experience that
> many different bugs exhibit the same symptoms. See
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperReleaseNotes/UbiquityKnownIssues for known
> issues and workarounds that can cause bugs that look like that. At a
> guess, yours is the XFS problem; this will be corrected in the first
> point release of Dapper.
>
> This bug is unconfirmed because (a) it's a duplicate and bug statuses
> are meaningless in that case and (b) I ignore the unconfirmed/confirmed
> distinction on my own bugs so setting it is largely a waste of time.
> Don't get too worked up about that.
>