[hardy] Ubiquity crashes with "MigrationAssistantApply failed with code 2"

[Nikolaus Rath]

On my Dell Latitude D810, the installation from the Hardy live cd reproducibly crashes. I have attached the syslog of the live system.

[Evan (ev)]

Are you able to reproduce this? Can you attach /var/log/syslog (from the live CD environment) from such an install attempt once it completes?

Thanks!

[Nikolaus Rath (nikratio)]

Yes, I can reproduce it. Attached is the syslog. I will stay in the live system for another hour or so if you have additional questions.

Note that this time I also noticed same strange message concerning a "Migration Assistant" (see screenshot)

[Evan (ev)]

Sorry to bother you again, but can you add set -x to the top of /usr/lib/ubiquity/migration-assistant/ma-ask and /usr/lib/ubiquity/migration-assistant/ma-apply, so they will look something like this:

#!/bin/sh
set -x
...

Then run the install again and attach /var/log/syslog to this bug report.

Thanks!

[Nikolaus Rath (nikratio)]

I am afraid that I already installed with the alternate installer and I have no unpartitioned space left for a trial install on the same hard disk.

But maybe I can still help you in triaging the bug. Is it possible that the installer tried to access the home folder of a previous Ubuntu installation but failed to do so, because the filesystem was encrypted using cbc-plain, for which there is no module in the live cd? In that case I could try to reproduce this situation on a USB disk. What exactly is this migration-assistant supposed to do?

Please give me some feedback whether this could be helpful before I spend time on it.

[D. Hugh Redelmeier (hugh-mimosa)]

I've experienced this problem installing 8.04.1 on a Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook. This was repeatable. It also happened when I fell back to installing 8.04.

Should I create a new bug entry because this is Hardy?

To recap:

- I do a fresh install on this notebook.

- I do the partitioning: this is going to replace Fedora Core 4 and co-exist with Fedora Core 6. There is also a never-run WinXP installation partition (i.e. it isn't WinXP, but if it were run, it would install WinXP; as delivered by Dell).

- the installation runs to ~90% and then disappears from the desktop as if finished (except we know that that isn't how an installation finishes).

- the resulting system is unbootable: grub is not installed, no initrd is installed, no /boot/grub/menu.lst. This, in fact, is how I discovered something was wrong the first time: I didn't notice that the silent termination was in fact a failure.

As requested above, I did an installation run after installing "set -x" after the first line of two shell scripts /usr/lib/ubiquity/migration-assistant/ma-ask and /usr/lib/ubiquity/migration-assistant/ma-apply

Based on reading the tealeaves in the resulting /var/log/syslog, I decided to hide Fedora Core 6's fstab (I renamed it /etc/fstab.HIDE) and then the 8.04.1 installation worked.

As I type this report, I no longer have access to the notebook. I don't have a copy of the fstab. Perhaps the only odd thing was that I had commented out the last line since it referred to the partition that I was taking over for Ubuntu's /home. That line started with #LABEL=/space, I believe.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Exception during installation:
May 30 13:59:17 ubuntu python: Traceback (most recent call last):
May 30 13:59:17 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1911, in <module>
May 30 13:59:17 ubuntu python: install.run()
May 30 13:59:17 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 405, in run
May 30 13:59:17 ubuntu python: self.configure_ma()
May 30 13:59:17 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1101, in configure_ma
May 30 13:59:17 ubuntu python: raise InstallStepError("MigrationAssistantApply failed with code %d" % ret)
May 30 13:59:17 ubuntu python: InstallStepError: MigrationAssistantApply failed with code 2
May 30 13:59:17 ubuntu python:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Exception during installation:
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu python: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1911, in <module>
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu python: install.run()
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 405, in run
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu python: self.configure_ma()
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1101, in configure_ma
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu python: raise InstallStepError("MigrationAssistantApply failed with code %d" % ret)
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu python: InstallStepError: MigrationAssistantApply failed with code 2
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu python:
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: debconffilter_done: Install (current: None)
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 229, in <module>
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: main()
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 224, in main
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: install(args[0])
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 68, in install
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: ret = wizard.run()
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py", line 428, in run
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: self.progress_loop()
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py", line 797, in progress_loop
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: (ret, realtb))
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1911, in <module>
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: install.run()
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 405, in run
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: self.configure_ma()
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1101, in configure_ma
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: raise InstallStepError("MigrationAssistantApply failed with code %d" % ret)
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]: InstallStepError: MigrationAssistantApply failed with code 2
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu ubiquity[9152]:
Jul 8 23:14:20 ubuntu last message repeated 2 times
Jul 8 23:17:02 ubuntu /USR/SBIN/CRON[743]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Jul 8 23:25:55 ubuntu ubiquity[1158]: Ubiquity 1.8.7
Jul 8 23:25:56 ubuntu ubiquity[1158]: log-output -t ubiquity umount /target/home
Jul 8 23:25:56 ubuntu ubiquity[1158]: log-output -t ubiquity umount /target
Jul 8 23:26:01 ubuntu ubiquity[1158]: log-output -t ubiquity laptop-detect
Jul 8 23:26:03 ubuntu ubiquity[1158]: log-output -t ubiquity fontconfig-voodoo --auto --force --quiet
Jul 8 23:2...

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