Installer Crashes

[Vinayaka]

11.10 installer crashed in a system that had the 11.04 and I gave the option Erase 11.04 and install 11.10. In the end (~after 80%) crashed twice

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Thu Dec 1 16:36:37 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Dec 1 15:38:32 ubuntu plugininstall.py: SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Dec 1 15:38:32 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

There seems to be something going on with your local network preventing the download of adobe-flashplugin:

Dec 1 16:35:40 ubuntu ubiquity: Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80...
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: connected.
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: 302 Moved
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: Location: http://172.16.150.224:15871/cgi-bin/blockpage.cgi?ws-session=2999666857 [following]
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: --2011-12-01 16:35:41-- http://172.16.150.224:15871/cgi-bin/blockpage.cgi?ws-session=2999666857
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: Connecting to 172.16.150.224:15871...
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: connected.
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: 200 OK
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: Length: 1518 (1.5K) [text/html]
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: Saving to: `./adobe-flashplugin_11.1.102.55.orig.tar.gz'
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity:
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: 0K . 100%
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: 165M=0s
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity:
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: 2011-12-01 16:35:41 (165 MB/s) - `./adobe-flashplugin_11.1.102.55.orig.tar.gz' saved [1518/1518]
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity:
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: Download done.
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: sha256sum mismatch adobe-flashplugin_11.1.102.55.orig.tar.gz
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: The Flash plugin is NOT installed.
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: error processing flashplugin-downloader:i386 (--configure):
Dec 1 16:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

You might try installing Ubuntu without the 3rd party software option enabled and then install things as you need them.

[Vinayaka (vinayaka-hegde)]

Brian
Thanks for the input. I tried the same and the installation is successful. I was trying the same and I received your comments. It confirmed my doubt and it worked well.

-Vinayaka

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 876298, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.