"Installation failed"

[Cody A.W. Somerville]

Binary package hint: usb-creator

My first attempt reached the end before giving me a dialogue about an uncaught exception. Now subsequent attempts result in the UI freezing up for a few moments before a dialogue pops up and says "Installation failed".

[Cody A.W. Somerville (cody-somerville)]

Doing a format of the partition allows me to try again but I get the exception dialogue again. See attached screenshot.

[Evan (ev)]

What CD image did you use?

[Cody A.W. Somerville (cody-somerville)]

A CD image for an OEM project. I think you guessed correctly where the problem is.

I've created a branch with some changes to allow usb-creator make the necessary syslinux config changes for OEM images which should also fix this bug as a side effect. I'll go create a merge proposal.

[Cody A.W. Somerville (cody-somerville)]

I've also uncovered another bug in that code. You fail to reset the command variable so a ValueError is thrown since you ask for the index of the command for the previous non-blank line for lines that *are* blank. I'll include the fix in the branch.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package usb-creator - 0.2.9

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usb-creator (0.2.9) karmic; urgency=low

  * Properly catch exceptions around modifying the syslinux
    configuration (LP: #439977).

 -- Evan Dandrea <email address hidden> Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:42:25 +0100

[Cody A.W. Somerville (cody-somerville)]

You didn't fix anything. All you did was ignore any possible exceptions. There is a bug in the code that I've already highlighted and even provided a patch for among other enhancements. Please review my merge proposal.

[Evan (ev)]

Cody,
Do you consider this bug fixed now that your branch has been merged?

[Cody A.W. Somerville (cody-somerville)]

Yes.

Did it get uploaded to karmic though?

[Daniel Holm (danielholm)]

I'm trying to install a Ubuntu Karmic 32-bit to two different USB-sticks. Neither works and I'm starting to get rather pissed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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