Installer crashed

[jc]

Attempting to install on Dell D620 Laptop, suceeds up until it looks like it tries to configure grub.

This machine is a dual boot windows machine. Happened 3 times in a row.

I want my unbutu :(

Here's the error:

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 266, in run
    self.process_step()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 741, in process_step
    self.mountpoints_to_summary()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 1029, in mountpoints_to_summary
    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

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Could you please also attach /var/log/partman? I suspect you might have tried to install Ubuntu on a XFS partition. Can say for sure upon seeing the partman file requested above.

Have a great day!

[jc (john-cavacas)]

Hi there,

Sorry i've already rebooted and lost the logs. However your suspicion is correct. I was trying to install on XFS. Is there a work around? Or should I just revert to ext3? (i would really like to use xfs)

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

Thanks for your report. Due to some reliability problems with GRUB and
XFS, you need to use a non-XFS root filesystem or create a non-XFS /boot
filesystem. The fact that the partitioner doesn't warn you about this
up-front is also bug 47848, and is fixed in dapper-updates.

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Rejecting since reporter does not have logs. Is a duplicate too.

[jc (john-cavacas)]

I fixed this, as reported in the other many instances of this issue by creating a 100mb /boot ext3 partition.