crashes w/ errors "partman exited with code 10", "RuntimeError: called outside of a mainloop at gtkui.py:1169 in watch_debconf_fd_helper, and more

[Jason Spiro]

I went through the 6.06 installer on my laptop. It went well but then after I clicked the start-installation button on the final screen it crashed. I think I had /dev/hda6 mounted on /dev/hda6, though I tried to unmount it through the GUI.

Ubuntu version: 6.06 LTS.

Errors in the log: "ubiquity: /bin/partman exited with code 10", "RuntimeError: called outside of a mainloop" at gtkui.py", line 1169, in watch_debconf_fd_helper, and more. For the full list of errors, see the attached log.

Settings I used: I chose French language and US keymap. I fiddled with the clock time settings for a while, and I set the time zone twice. I chose not to repartition or reformat anything. I set these mountpoints: /dev/hdc1 (FAT32) mounted to /m/w, /dev/hdc2 (FreeBSD FFS) mounted to /m/b, and /dev/hdc6 (ext3) mounted to /.

Hardware: 3-year old Dell Inspiron 1100 Intel 32-bit Celeron laptop.

Thanks for reading,
--Jason

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Looks like you hit back and/or forward when the installer wasn't quite ready for it yet. This is also bug 54163, and is fixed in Edgy. In Dapper, you can probably work around this just by being a bit slower ...