installer crashed on gOs live cd

[im filling a bug]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

installer crashed i'm trying to install from gOs 3 livecd, 500 Gb hd, started using safemode graphics

Clicked on the installer icon on desktop, got to the partition settings.
Used the manual settings, didn't want to resize main partition, i chose a smaller partition (the dell recovery one)
formated ext3,goes thru most of the install fails on grub installer,

the error msg from the window.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 229, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 224, in main
    install(args[0])
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 68, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py", line 428, in run
    self.progress_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py", line 797, in progress_loop
    (ret, realtb))
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1913, in <module>
    install.run()
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 419, in run
    self.configure_bootloader()
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1422, in configure_bootloader
    "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1

Checked var/log/syslog is empty.

attached is var/log/partman

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I'm sorry, I'm simply unable to help you - I don't know what changes gOS have made to ubiquity, especially not without a syslog. I can only deal with Ubuntu installations. I'm afraid you'll have to ask the gOS people for help here.

(Sorry for the long delay in replying to you, though.)