Ubuntu
ubiquity package

  1. Bug #178984
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 178984

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

There is no reason that a prior operating system install should interfere with installing GRUB. Removing DSL is unlikely to make any difference except by luck.

In any case:

Dec 27 23:32:56 ubuntu grub-installer: malloc: ../bash/dispose_cmd.c:197: assertion botched^M
Dec 27 23:32:56 ubuntu grub-installer: free: start and end chunk sizes differ
Dec 27 23:32:56 ubuntu grub-installer: Aborting...
Dec 27 23:33:10 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'update-grub -y' failed.

That looks like a fairly random crash in bash to me. Wolfgang, perhaps this is bad memory?