Install fails at grub?

[Lasse Gullvåg Sætre]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Ubiquity crashes at 94%, syslog shows when installing grub. I'm installing 9.10 Alpha 6 from an SD-card reader connected to my computer through USB. The disk is a 35gig raptor. Installing / on /dev/sda1, using the automated partitioning.

I've tried using a different install medium (regular USB pen), but still no go. I also tried the alternate install, but when trying to install packages it said it could not find CD-ROM (im guessing where it is searching for the .debs). /cdrom/ looks good though, the install medium is mounted there.

I originally tried this and failed with several disks on the system, but for this report I ripped all the other disks out to eliminate sources of error.

I've attached the full syslog. What appears to me as peculiar is the "Not Copying" part. Otherwise the traceback occurs on line 4197. Tell me if you need some other logs, or for me to test anything.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 29 20:36:19 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha amd64 (20090917.1)
Package: ubiquity 1.99.21
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64

[Evan (ev)]

Don't worry about the "Not copying" messages. Those are files you wont need in the installed system, so the installer filters them out.

Can you run the installer until it crashes and then attach the output of `find /target/usr/lib/grub` and `archdetect`?

Thanks!

[Lasse Gullvåg Sætre (lassegs)]

I will once i return from camping trip. Thx.

1. okt. 2009 5:45 ettermiddag "Evan Dandrea" <email address hidden>:

Don't worry about the "Not copying" messages. Those are files you wont
need in the installed system, so the installer filters them out.

Can you run the installer until it crashes and then attach the output of
`find /target/usr/lib/grub` and `archdetect`?

Thanks!

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
      Status: New => Incomplete

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[Lasse Gullvåg Sætre (lassegs)]

Im sorry. I succesfully installed via net installer (mini image ~10mb, gets all the packages online). Then it installed grub properly, and i havent managed to reproduce it.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

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