Installer Crashed

[Peter Pontefract]

 installing linuxmint Katya 11 from downloaded iso on usb - syslog and partman attached as one file below as requested

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Nov 14 12:25:43 mint kernel: [ 3117.964823] EXT3-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
Nov 14 12:25:43 mint ubiquity: mkdir:
Nov 14 12:25:43 mint ubiquity: cannot create directory `/target/var/lock'
Nov 14 12:25:43 mint ubiquity: : File exists
Nov 14 12:25:43 mint ubiquity:
Nov 14 12:25:43 mint ubiquity: mkdir:
Nov 14 12:25:43 mint ubiquity: cannot create directory `/target/var/run'
Nov 14 12:25:43 mint ubiquity: : File exists
Nov 14 12:25:43 mint ubiquity:
Nov 14 12:25:44 mint ubiquity[8035]: debconffilter_done: ubiquity.components.partman_commit (current: None)
Nov 14 12:25:44 mint install.py: keeping packages due to preseeding: openoffice.org
Nov 14 12:25:44 mint install.py: keeping language packs for: en
Nov 14 12:25:46 mint ubiquity: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/deprecation.py:96: UserWarning: Deprecated parameter 'autoFix'
Nov 14 12:25:46 mint ubiquity: warnings.warn("Deprecated parameter %r" % key)
Nov 14 12:30:21 mint install.py: Exception during installation:
Nov 14 12:30:21 mint install.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Nov 14 12:30:21 mint install.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 610, in <module>
Nov 14 12:30:21 mint install.py: install.run()
Nov 14 12:30:21 mint install.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 124, in run
Nov 14 12:30:21 mint install.py: self.copy_all()
Nov 14 12:30:21 mint install.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 362, in copy_all
Nov 14 12:30:21 mint install.py: os.mkdir(targetpath, mode)
Nov 14 12:30:21 mint install.py: OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/target/var/lock'

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Moving to the linuxmint project.

[Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre)]

Ubiquity seems to fail because it's trying to create a directory that already exists... shouldn't this be fixed in Ubiquity itself then?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

From what I can tell Linux Mint 11 is based on (11.04) and if the installer is unchanged that would make this bug a duplicate of bug 891711.