ubiquity crashes in ubuntu 9.04 installation

[nony]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

this is the first time i am using the bugreporting system. i assume a bugreport has already been automatically sent. after the ubuntu 9.04 installaltion process crashed, the live-cd version came up asking if a bugreport should be sent. when i clicked 'send' it did something and then came up with this launchpad.net page.

i have been having this problem with ubuntu 8.04 also. i installed it successfully 6 months back. when i had to do it again the installation crashed at the 'importing documents and settings' stage. no hardware has been added or removed from the computer. however, there are now more than 32 partitions over 2 harddisks.

i have tried a couple of things. i installed grub to the partitionbootrecord instead of the mbr using 'chainloader +1' in menu.lst( this solved some trouble i was having with a debian 5.0.1 installation).. i also preformatted the installation partition with the mkfs option '-I 128' incase the 128-256 bit inode was an issue. neither attempt succeeded.

here are the log files user.log, syslog and partman as an attachment

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
MediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" - Release i386 (20090420.1)
Package: ubiquity 1.12.12
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity --only
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', '--only']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_ma()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UserGroups:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Exception during installation:
May 29 12:30:57 ubuntu python: Traceback (most recent call last):
May 29 12:30:57 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 2225, in <module>
May 29 12:30:57 ubuntu python: install.run()
May 29 12:30:57 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 416, in run
May 29 12:30:57 ubuntu python: self.configure_ma()
May 29 12:30:57 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1334, in configure_ma
May 29 12:30:57 ubuntu python: raise InstallStepError("MigrationAssistantApply failed with code %d" % ret)
May 29 12:30:57 ubuntu python: InstallStepError: MigrationAssistantApply failed with code 2
May 29 12:30:57 ubuntu python:
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: debconffilter_done: Install (current: None)
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: Traceback (most recent call last):
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 232, in <module>
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: main()
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 229, in main
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: install()
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 68, in install
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: ret = wizard.run()
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py", line 448, in run
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: self.progress_loop()
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py", line 931, in progress_loop
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: (ret, realtb))
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: Traceback (most recent call last):
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 2225, in <module>
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: install.run()
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 416, in run
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: self.configure_ma()
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1334, in configure_ma
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: raise InstallStepError("MigrationAssistantApply failed with code %d" % ret)
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]: InstallStepError: MigrationAssistantApply failed with code 2
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu ubiquity[4446]:
May 29 12:30:59 ubuntu last message repeated 2 times

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/var/log/syslog

May 29 11:58:42 ubuntu syslogd 1.5.0#5ubuntu3: restart.
May 29 11:58:42 ubuntu kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.28-11-generic
May 29 11:58:43 ubuntu kernel: Cannot find map file.
May 29 11:58:43 ubuntu kernel: Loaded 54525 symbols from 54 modules.
May 29 11:58:43 ubuntu kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS EBDA/lowmem at: 0009fc00/0009fc00
May 29 11:58:43 ubuntu kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuse...

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

9.04 has been end of life for some time, are you able to reproduce this on 12.04+?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]