Installer crash: RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1

[Simon Law]

In bug 49088, romu wrote:

Hello all,

had an installer crash during installation. First attempt at installing Ubuntu on a Toshiba Satellite M40 331 laptop.
Call trace and logs (attached) :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 130, in ?
    install(sys.argv[1])
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 55, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 264, in run
    self.progress_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 538, in progress_loop
    raise RuntimeError, ("Install failed with exit code %s; see "
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1; see /var/log/installer/syslog and /var/log/syslog

I would be glad to help debug this one, more details on demand.

Romu

http://librarian.launchpad.net/3519019/syslog
http://librarian.launchpad.net/3519022/partman
http://librarian.launchpad.net/3519024/syslog

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

Thanks for your report. At present, you must reformat system partitions (e.g. /, /boot, /usr, or /var) during installation; the fact that the partitioner doesn't warn you about this is also bug 47046, and is fixed in dapper-updates. If you are upgrading an existing installation, then please see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperUpgrades rather than using this installer.