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ubiquity crashes at ~82% when installing ubuntu from usb key to usb key on Dell Mini 9

Bug #441771 reported by komputes on 2009-10-03

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #220961: [MASTER] ubiquity crashes instead of notifying the user of not enough disk space. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I have run into a bug on a Dell Mini 9, both trying to install jaunty and karmic, ubiquity crashed at 82% without popping up a crash report dialog.

I have tested this process on other hardware, where it works well, so it only seems to affect the mini 9.

Steps to reproduce:
-Create a jaunty or karmic desktop live cd
-Boot mini 9 from usb key
-Open ubiquity and install onto another (blank) usb key

Result:
-Ubiquity crashes at ~70 without bringing up an apport dialog
-USB key with (half-done) installation does not boot

Expecting:
-Ubiquity should not crash
-USB key should be bootable

Once again, let me warn you that this only happens on this mini 9. I'm not quite sure why.

See original description

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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote on 2009-10-04:

Confirming, because I saw it fail, but please provide the output of apport-collect... :)

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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komputes (komputes) wrote on 2009-10-04:

apport-collect did not record push any info to the bug so I used ubuntu-bug to create Bug #442565

See Bug #442565 for the "ubuntu-bug ubiquity" output files.

summary:	- ubiquity on Dell Mini 9 crashes at ~70% when installing ubuntu from usb + ubiquity on Dell Mini 9 crashes at ~82% when installing ubuntu from usb key to usb key
description:	updated

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komputes (komputes) wrote on 2009-10-04: Re: ubiquity on Dell Mini 9 crashes at ~82% when installing ubuntu from usb key to usb key

I have no issues installing Jaunty or karmic to the internal HD.

When attempting to install Ubuntu jaunty or karmic from a usb stick (created with usb-creator) onto a blank usb disk, the installer crashed without giving an error.

I expect to see the a dialog when the installer is done.

komputes (komputes) on 2009-12-16

summary:

- ubiquity on Dell Mini 9 crashes at ~82% when installing ubuntu from usb
- key to usb key
+ ubiquity crashes at ~82% when installing ubuntu from usb key to usb key
+ on Dell Mini 9

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ubuntu-usb-tester (chepe-nolon) wrote on 2011-01-16:

syslog Edit (210.1 KiB, text/plain)

on Dell Latitude X300, having Ubiquity failing almost at end of installation from USB flashdrive to USB flashdrive.

attaching logs

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ubuntu-usb-tester (chepe-nolon) wrote on 2011-01-16:

partman Edit (543.7 KiB, text/plain)

adding another log, didn't figure out how to add them both in same post.. ehehe

going for reinstall on same system with same config, but skipping the "download online updates"... might log on later to say how it went.. good luck figuring this out, I don't even know if I need Ubiquity or not, don't rightly care as long as it messes up install.. :-p

linux noob signing out for now ^_^

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2011-07-28

tags:	added: ubiquity-2.4.8
tags:	added: maverick

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2011-08-16:

It seems that you ran out of free space:

Jan 16 00:27:18 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: error processing /target/var/cache/apt/archives/libtwolame0_0.3.12-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
Jan 16 00:27:18 ubuntu ubiquity: failed in write on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/libtwolame.so.0.0.0': No space left on device