Ubiquity does not finish installation on PAE kernels

[Ara Pulido]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Using Xubuntu Desktop i386 Free Software Only.

Ubiquity logs attached

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 28 16:24:13 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028)
Package: ubiquity 2.0.7
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:4245): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (xfce4-mixer-plugin:4297): libxfce4mixer-CRITICAL **: xfce_mixer_get_track: assertion `GST_IS_MIXER (card)' failed
 (xfce4-terminal:4309): Terminal-WARNING **: Unable to load terminal preferences.

[Ara Pulido (ara)]

Build 20091028

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

I can confirm this bug. Ran into this during testing for the final release. Build 20091028.

[Ara Pulido (ara)]

Attached output of dmidecode

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.0.8

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ubiquity (2.0.8) karmic-updates; urgency=low

  * Don't remove the boot kernel if we failed to install -generic-pae
    (LP: #462692).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:53:21 +0000

[Lauri Võsandi (lauri-vosandi)]

I can confirm this

[Evan (ev)]

Lauri,
What CD date were you using? How did the install break for you?

Can you please attach /var/log/syslog from a failing install attempt as well as /var/lib/ubiquity/remove-kernels and /var/lib/ubiquity/install-kernels?

Thanks!

[Paul Larson (pwlars)]

From an Eee 900 where I also saw this problem:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo /usr/lib/base-installer/dmi-available-memory
1065353217