Ubiquity (installer) crashes near end of complex install

[Bob Schmertz]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Precursor to this: grub-install failed. I may have forgotten to set /dev/sda1 to mount at /boot (grub-install error message was something like "Error: grub-install (hd0) failed. Fatal error").

Other background info: I used a backdoor method of installing Ubuntu Desktop on LVM partitions. Everything installed on these partitions up to the grub-install part.

'df' showed no /target/boot partition (and the /target/root partition was an LVM volume, so that was never going to work). So somehow the ext2/3 partition for /boot didn't get mounted. My oversight? Not sure.

Intrepid Ibex

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: ubiquity 1.10.10
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity gtk_ui
ProcEnviron: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/proc/29484/environ'
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', 'gtk_ui']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_bootloader()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
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