An exception appears to have occurred during a preseeded raring desktop amd64 installation. The following is taken from the available log,
Feb 18 09:46:09 ubuntu ubiquity: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 18 09:46:09 ubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site.py", line 75, in <module>
Feb 18 09:46:09 ubuntu ubiquity: import os
Feb 18 09:46:09 ubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/lib/python3.3/os.py", line 27, in <module>
Feb 18 09:46:09 ubuntu ubiquity: import stat as st
Feb 18 09:46:09 ubuntu ubiquity: TypeError: source code string cannot contain null bytes
Feb 18 09:46:09 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: error processing ubiquity (--purge):
Feb 18 09:46:09 ubuntu ubiquity: subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Feb 18 09:46:13 ubuntu ubiquity: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 18 09:46:13 ubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site.py", line 75, in <module>
Feb 18 09:46:13 ubuntu ubiquity: import os
Feb 18 09:46:13 ubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/lib/python3.3/os.py", line 27, in <module>
Feb 18 09:46:13 ubuntu ubiquity: import stat as st
Feb 18 09:46:13 ubuntu ubiquity: TypeError: source code string cannot contain null bytes
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: error while cleaning up:
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing ubiquity-frontend-gtk ...
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site.py", line 75, in <module>
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: import os
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/lib/python3.3/os.py", line 27, in <module>
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: import stat as st
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: TypeError: source code string cannot contain null bytes
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: error processing ubiquity-frontend-gtk (--purge):
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing apt-clone ...
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site.py", line 75, in <module>
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: import os
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/lib/python3.3/os.py", line 27, in <module>
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: import stat as st
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: TypeError: source code string cannot contain null bytes
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: error processing apt-clone (--purge):
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Feb 18 09:46:14 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing archdetect-deb ...
Feb 18 09:46:15 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing cryptsetup ...
Feb 18 09:46:16 ubuntu ubiquity: update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Feb 18 09:46:17 ubuntu ubiquity: Purging configuration files for cryptsetup ...
Feb 18 09:46:19 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing dpkg-repack ...
Feb 18 09:46:19 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing ecryptfs-utils ...
Feb 18 09:46:21 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing gir1.2-timezonemap-1.0 ...
Feb 18 09:46:22 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing gir1.2-json-1.0 ...
Feb 18 09:46:23 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing gir1.2-xkl-1.0 ...
Feb 18 09:46:24 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing keyutils ...
Feb 18 09:46:24 ubuntu ubiquity: Purging configuration files for keyutils ...
Feb 18 09:46:25 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing libdebconfclient0 ...
Feb 18 09:46:25 ubuntu ubiquity: Purging configuration files for libdebconfclient0 ...
Feb 18 09:46:26 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing libdebian-installer4 ...
Feb 18 09:46:26 ubuntu ubiquity: Purging configuration files for libdebian-installer4 ...
Feb 18 09:46:27 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing libecryptfs0 ...
Feb 18 09:46:27 ubuntu ubiquity: Purging configuration files for libecryptfs0 ...
Feb 18 09:46:27 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing libnss3-1d:amd64 ...
Feb 18 09:46:28 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing python3-pyicu ...
Feb 18 09:46:28 ubuntu ubiquity: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 18 09:46:28 ubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site.py", line 75, in <module>
Feb 18 09:46:28 ubuntu ubiquity: import os
Feb 18 09:46:28 ubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/lib/python3.3/os.py", line 27, in <module>
Feb 18 09:46:28 ubuntu ubiquity: import stat as st
Feb 18 09:46:28 ubuntu ubiquity: TypeError: source code string cannot contain null bytes
Feb 18 09:46:28 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: error processing python3-pyicu (--purge):
Feb 18 09:46:28 ubuntu ubiquity: subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Feb 18 09:46:28 ubuntu ubiquity: No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Feb 18 09:46:28 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing rdate ...
Feb 18 09:46:29 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing reiserfsprogs ...
Feb 18 09:46:30 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing sbsigntool ...
Feb 18 09:46:30 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing ubiquity-casper ...
Feb 18 09:46:31 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing ubiquity-ubuntu-artwork ...
Feb 18 09:46:31 ubuntu ubiquity: Processing triggers for man-db ...
Feb 18 09:46:35 ubuntu ubiquity: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
Feb 18 09:46:35 ubuntu ubiquity: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-6-generic
Feb 18 09:46:45 ubuntu ubiquity: Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Feb 18 09:46:45 ubuntu ubiquity: Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Feb 18 09:46:47 ubuntu ubiquity: Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Feb 18 09:46:48 ubuntu ubiquity: Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Feb 18 09:46:48 ubuntu ubiquity: Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Feb 18 09:46:48 ubuntu ubiquity: Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Feb 18 09:46:48 ubuntu ubiquity: Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
Feb 18 09:46:48 ubuntu ubiquity: ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Feb 18 09:46:48 ubuntu ubiquity: Processing triggers for software-center ...
Feb 18 09:46:50 ubuntu ubiquity: INFO:softwarecenter.db.update:no translation information in database needed
Feb 18 09:46:50 ubuntu ubiquity: Errors were encountered while processing:
Feb 18 09:46:50 ubuntu ubiquity: ubiquity
Feb 18 09:46:50 ubuntu ubiquity: ubiquity-frontend-gtk
Feb 18 09:46:50 ubuntu ubiquity: apt-clone
Feb 18 09:46:50 ubuntu ubiquity: python3-pyicu
Feb 18 09:46:50 ubuntu ubiquity: Error in function:
Feb 18 09:46:50 ubuntu ubiquity:
Feb 18 09:46:50 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: Exception during installation:
The impacted job is,
https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Raring/view/Smoke%20Testing/job/raring-desktop-amd64-smoke-default/97/
Syslog is attached. This appears to be am intermittent issue though, since the consecutive runs have passed and the manual installations also succeeded and did not see thins issue.
Steps:
1. Do a preseed installation of raring desktop using utah. The automation instructions are below
2. Reboot the machine
(Utah for automated installation, the how to is given in http://utah.readthedocs.org/en/latest/introduction.html#how-to-start-running-tests)
The steps are
1. use the attached .preseed file (attachment 15) and .run file (attachment 16) to execute the following command (please provide the absolute path to the files and the iso)
sudo -u utah -i run_utah_tests.py -i /path/to/iso/raring-desktop-amd64.iso -p lp:ubuntu-test-cases/desktop/preseeds/default.cfg lp:ubuntu-test-cases/desktop/runlists/default.run -x /etc/utah/bridged-network-vm.xml
2. Reboot the VM after the installation
When you say intermittent do you mean that it happened more than once? or did this only happen one time?