installer crashed during install

[Jacob Bunk Nielsen]

The installer crashes with an "installer crashed" message while trying to install Ubuntu 12.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.10.16
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.315
Date: Sun Jul 1 23:47:35 2012
InstallCmdLine: initrd=/casper/initrd.lz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash -- BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jacob Bunk Nielsen (j0coe)]

I tried installing 12.10 on that machine (a brand new Asus Zenbook Prime laptop (Ivy bridge)) and it worked fine, so the bug seems to be fixed in 12.10.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Reviewing your installation log file it appears that your installation media contains some strange data which is causing the installation to fail. The standard Ubuntu installation media (and that of supported derivatives) does not include this data and will not fail in this way, so it must be an issue with the way the installation media was prepared. Subsequently, this bug report is Invalid but it would be useful to know what tool you prepared the installation media. Additionally, to resolve the issue you may want to try fully erasing the USB drive which contains the installer before recreating it. Thanks and good luck!

[Jacob Bunk Nielsen (j0coe)]

Thank you for the feedback, I have long since moved on to a newer version of Ubuntu, but I can tell you that I created the installation USB stick using UNetbootin with an Ubuntu ISO image I downloaded from ubuntu.com. I used UNetbootin on a computer running Debian unstable.