Install fails with error: "Extraction failed with code: 2" (update: seems ok after retrying)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Wubi |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
*** Edit: I have tried again, and reached the "Reboot Now / Reboot Later" screen. That means all is going well this time. I can update later if this install fails. I may not update quickly, as I am going to check out Ubuntu for a while if it installs correctly. Thanks Wubi team for your work on the Wubi tool. I hope to get back to this bug post at a later time. ***
*** Confirming that my Ubuntu works as of second attempt. ***
I am trying to install Ubuntu on my windows Vista PC but after about 30 minutes, I get an error message:
"Extraction failed with code: 2", with a pointer to the log file.
Please find below the relevant extract from wubi-12.
thank you
DanD
07-29 16:28 DEBUG TaskList: ### Running download...
07-29 16:28 DEBUG downloader: downloading http://
07-29 16:28 DEBUG downloader: Download start filename=
07-29 17:18 DEBUG downloader: download finished (read 380523926 bytes)
07-29 17:18 DEBUG TaskList: ### Finished download
07-29 17:18 DEBUG TaskList: ## Finished get_diskimage
07-29 17:18 DEBUG TaskList: ## Running extract_
07-29 17:19 ERROR TaskList: Extraction failed with code: 2
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "\lib\wubi\
File "\lib\wubi\
Exception: Extraction failed with code: 2
07-29 17:19 DEBUG TaskList: # Cancelling tasklist
07-29 17:19 DEBUG TaskList: # Finished tasklist
description: | updated |
summary: |
- Install fails with error: "Extraction failed with code: 2" + Install fails with error: "Extraction failed with code: 2" (update: + seems ok after retrying) |
Changed in wubi: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
tags: | added: precise |
description: | updated |
It didn't download the preinstalled image properly. You should have 489MB not 362MB (380523926 byes). The installer should probably recognize this instead of trying to proceed.
So as a workaround, you could try again (probably some network error that stopped it fully downloading), or manually download the target file (see here for instructions how to use it: http:// askubuntu. com/a/143478/ 14916 ), or download the desktop cd ISO instead (save in same folder as wubi.exe before running).