Installation in VMWare environment

[Berni]

Crashes during installation in VWWare 7.1.4

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.7.28
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.17-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.283
Date: Wed Sep 14 11:14:17 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110913)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_CH.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_CH.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Matt Parlette (matthew-parlette)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately, we cannot work on this bug because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem.

We have instructions on debugging some types of problems at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures

At a minimum, we need:
1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
2. the behavior you expected, and
3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
Thanks!

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

@Matt - actually there is sufficient information to start working on this bug report.

In the syslog file we have at least one traceback from the installer:
Sep 14 09:55:01 ubuntu install.py: Exception during installation:
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 632, in <module>
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: install.run()
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 124, in run
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: self.copy_all()
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 358, in copy_all
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(self.source):
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 294, in walk
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: for x in walk(new_path, topdown, onerror, followlinks):
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 294, in walk
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: for x in walk(new_path, topdown, onerror, followlinks):
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 294, in walk
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: for x in walk(new_path, topdown, onerror, followlinks):
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 292, in walk
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: new_path = join(top, name)
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 66, in join
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: if b.startswith('/'):
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: AttributeError: 'frame' object has no attribute 'startswith'
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py:
Sep 14 07:55:09 ubuntu kernel: [ 4710.133251] install.py[12544]: segfault at 5 ip 0812d418 sp bfd750a0 error 4 in python2.7[8048000+223000]

Further back there is a kernel oops and before that we see what is likely the root of the problem:

Sep 14 06:40:47 ubuntu kernel: [ 248.163230] JFS: nTxBlock = 1948, nTxLock = 15591
Sep 14 06:40:48 ubuntu kernel: [ 248.477473] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block/inode numbers, no debug enabled
Sep 14 06:40:48 ubuntu kernel: [ 248.511010] SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Sep 14 06:40:48 ubuntu kernel: [ 248.852469] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Sep 14 06:40:48 ubuntu kernel: [ 248.872751] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Sep 14 06:40:53 ubuntu kernel: [ 253.971929] EXT4-fs (sdb1): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem
Sep 14 06:40:53 ubuntu kernel: [ 253.971963] EXT4-fs (sdb1): write access unavailable, cannot proceed
Sep 14 06:40:53 ubuntu ubiquity: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
Sep 14 06:40:53 ubuntu ubiquity: missing codepage or helper program, or other error
Sep 14 06:40:53 ubuntu ubiquity:
Sep 14 06:40:53 ubuntu ubiquity: Manchmal liefert das Syslog wertvolle Informationen – versuchen
Sep 14 06:40:53 ubuntu ubiquity: Sie dmesg | tail oder so
Sep 14 06:40:53 ubuntu ubiquity:

It seems to be like there is an issue with filesystems on /dev...

[dino99 (9d9)]

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