Kubuntu 9.10 beta: installer crashes before finishing install

[mathew]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

IBM ThinkPad T42p. Booted live CD, ran installer. Manual partition selection, 9.9GB of ext4 / and 69G as /home. No swap partition, I use a swapfile.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 457, in <module>
    main(oem_config)
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 442, in main
    install(args[0], query=options.query)
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 245, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_ui.py", line 438, in run
    self.progress_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_ui.py", line 862, in progress_loop
    (ret, realtb))
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 2323, in <module>
    install.run()
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 472, in run
    self.remove_extras()
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 2155, in remove_extras
    for line in manifest_file:
IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
$ apt-cache policy ubiquity
ubiquity:
  Installed: 1.99.28
  Candidate: 1.99.28
  Version table:
 *** 1.99.28 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[mathew (meta23)]

Seems to be fixed in RC1.

[Evan (ev)]

This looks like a bad CD burn:

Oct 7 17:48:15 ubuntu kernel: [96372.610671] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Unhandled sense code
Oct 7 17:48:15 ubuntu kernel: [96372.610677] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
Oct 7 17:48:15 ubuntu kernel: [96372.610681] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
Oct 7 17:48:15 ubuntu kernel: [96372.610686] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: No seek complete
Oct 7 17:48:15 ubuntu kernel: [96372.610691] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 4856
Oct 7 17:48:15 ubuntu kernel: [96372.610697] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1214
Oct 7 17:48:15 ubuntu kernel: [96372.610701] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1215
Oct 7 17:48:15 ubuntu kernel: [96372.610706] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1216
Oct 7 17:48:15 ubuntu kernel: [96372.610709] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1217
Oct 7 17:48:15 ubuntu kernel: [96372.610712] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1218

[Evan (ev)]

That said, we should still handle IO errors in install_extras and remove_extras more elegantly.

[Evan (ev)]

Attached is a patch to better handle IO errors that occur outside of the main file copy routine by moving that function's exception handling up one level.

[mathew (meta23)]

On Oct 23, 2009, at 18:39, Evan Dandrea wrote:
> This looks like a bad CD burn:

That's odd, as I verified the CD after burning using K3B.

Also, I just had success using the same CD (a CD-RW) with the release
candidate, burnt using the same machine and drive.

mathew