Install Ubuntu 12.04, installer crashed

[Robert Ward]

Installing Ubuntu 12.04, installer crashed while downloading updates. system failed to install

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.9.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-1.3-generic 3.2.0-rc2
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-1-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.292
Date: Sun Dec 11 21:56:26 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111128)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_NZ.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Dec 11 08:49:00 ubuntu ubiquity: Error in function:
Dec 11 08:49:00 ubuntu plugininstall.py: SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Dec 11 08:49:00 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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 850264, 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.

[Bug Reporter 11 (bugreporter11)]

I have seen this bug without the "foreign architecture" situation. I don't believe it is a duplicate of 850264. A clean amd64 install on an amd64 machine causes the installer to crash every time. Is there a workaround?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.