Ubiquity quits at Hardware detect

[Peter Rowe]

Install fails during hardware detect. I've run the installer a number of times and curiously sometimes, not often, it's successful. I haven't worked out why. Sometimes it freezes and requires rebooting. Sometimes it drops to the Live CD GDM, others it drops to LiveCD login. It looks to me to be a different problem from #350320. Now I'm wondering if it's the same as #342157

I've attached /var/log/syslog

I was guessing that the problem is with pulseaudio, which has never been happy with my soundcard (M-Audio 2496), but I really have no idea. Then I successfully installed just now after detaching a USB printer.

Ubuntu Jaunty beta AMD64

I later found this in the syslog for the failed install:

Apr 1 09:45:53 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1336, in configure_hardware
Apr 1 09:45:53 ubuntu python: raise InstallStepError("HwDetect failed with code %d" % ret)
Apr 1 09:45:53 ubuntu python: InstallStepError: HwDetect failed with code 141

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This might be the same cause as bug 349937. Could you try a daily build (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/) and let us know whether that exhibits the same symptoms? Thanks in advance.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Exception during installation:
Apr 1 09:45:53 ubuntu python: Traceback (most recent call last):
Apr 1 09:45:53 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 2214, in <module>
Apr 1 09:45:53 ubuntu python: install.run()
Apr 1 09:45:53 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 431, in run
Apr 1 09:45:53 ubuntu python: self.configure_hardware()
Apr 1 09:45:53 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1336, in configure_hardware
Apr 1 09:45:53 ubuntu python: raise InstallStepError("HwDetect failed with code %d" % ret)
Apr 1 09:45:53 ubuntu python: InstallStepError: HwDetect failed with code 141
Apr 1 09:45:53 ubuntu python:

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Closing due to lack of response.