If the installer fails or is aborted, users can end up in Live CD Desktop, which is confusing

[Agostino Russo]

If the installer fails users can end up in Live CD Desktop, which is confusing. Strangely enough they also seem to end up there after a reboot, I would have expected that rebooting after an unfinished installer session would start the installer again which should fail because an existing installation is detected... Possibly the last event does not trigger a failure-command.

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

Two of the duplicates had issues with hal initialization

[cpascual (isnot4u)]

Hi Agostino,

In the thread of Bug #217588 (now a duplicate of this one) you asked me to send
c:\document and settings\[your-username]\Wubi-8.04-beta-rev487.log
which I couldn't find.
However,I have just found it, elsewhere:
C:\Documents and Settings\[myusername]\Local Settings\Temp\Wubi-8.04-beta-rev487.log
(attached)

From that same thread:
> So in the previous case you aborted the installation, correct?

Correct

> And landed in a Live Session, correct?

Correct

>What happens when you rebooted and selected "Ubuntu" after the Live Session?
> Would the installer run again, or would you boot the Live CD Session.

Not sure.
I got the timezone setting screen again (does that mean it was the installer?), and after it, I got a desktop without having to log-in for the "ubuntu" user (which looks to me as live-CD session)

> /var/log/syslog is always welcome in such cases...

Yes, but the var/sys/log related to that failed installation is no longer present. The current one contains only the info from the successful installation.

[JC (jcsaintpo)]

hi agostino

>The logs look good. Also I can see that with 482 you
installed/uninstalled a few times and did not have to redownload.

i did not ask to redownload, it just did on his own!
I wanted to reinstall everytime because i kept having problems with HAL and always ended up in a live-session!

>Only happened with 487. Can you pls try uninstalling and then
installing+uninstalling using 487 and then check if you have a folder
called c:\ubuntu-bacup with the ISO in there?

I have a backup-folder, but wubi does not use it and downloads new iso!
i searched my computer, no logs found from 487! eventhough i istalled and uninstalled!

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

Having the following in preseed.cfg should avoid that (thanks to Evan Dandrea for the tip)

ubiquity ubiquity/automation_failure_command [ -x /custom-installation/hooks/failure-command.sh ] && /custom-installation/hooks/failure-command.sh

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

Fix commented out on Evan Dandrea suggestion

[StraightShootinComputin (straightshootincomputin)]

had the same problem

was able to add a user via Users and Groups and then log out and log into it, but it still suffered from LiveCD syndrome, and allowed sudo/gksudo without a password.

trying a second install

[StraightShootinComputin (straightshootincomputin)]

Second wubi install is progressing correctly. the only thing I can think of that I did differently is that I picked a longer password. In the first instance, I used a single digit for the password. In the second, I used an 8 digit long password.

Could this have anything to do with the problem?

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

I wouldn't think so. If that happens it would help to see the logs (particularly when booting in verbose mode). To generate the log press ctrl+alt+f2 and run: sudo sh /custom-installation/hooks/failure-command/sh

[StraightShootinComputin (straightshootincomputin)]

sorry, a little late for that. already using the 2nd (successful) install.

[Siegfried Wörner (sigi-woerner)]

The Installer is crashed (CD from the magazine ct)

for error analysis, I will send two files.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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