karmic RC1 installer crash too many levels of symbolic links
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
I booted from a USB stick created with usb-creator on a Hardy Heron computer from an
karmic-
I installed onto a Hardy Heron computer without changing the existing partitioning; I left it at
- NTFS, unmounted
- swap
- ext3, not formatted, mounted as "/"
- ext3, not formatted, mounted as "/home"
The "Installing system" dialog progress bar made it to "Copying files... 54%", and then the installer crashed.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/
main(
File "/usr/lib/
install(
File "/usr/lib/
ret = wizard.run()
File "/usr/lib/
self.
File "/usr/lib/
(ret, realtb))
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/
install.run()
File "/usr/share/
self.copy_all()
File "/usr/share/
self.
File "/usr/share/
targetfh = open(targetpath, 'wb')
IOError: [Errno 40] Too many levels of symbolic links: '/target/
At this point all virtual terminals are displaying snow, so I don't know how to find syslog or partman. (Perhaps the author of
the "ubiquity (Ubuntu) guidelines" on the bug report page could add some hints?)