frsh install of 11.10, crashes installing grub to /dev/sda

[phaidros]

* installing 11.10 amd64 from iso I walk through everyhting,
* created lvm and volumes before, and created filesystems, installer picks those up problemfree
* installs everything
* alert: cant install grub to /dev/sda, choose another device
* choosing /dev/sda again ubiquity just crashes

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 22 21:58:02 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Dec 22 21:57:57 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Dec 22 21:57:57 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1641, in <module>
Dec 22 21:57:57 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Dec 22 21:57:57 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
Dec 22 21:57:57 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Dec 22 21:57:57 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 199, in run
Dec 22 21:57:57 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.configure_bootloader()
Dec 22 21:57:57 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 944, in configure_bootloader
Dec 22 21:57:57 ubuntu plugininstall.py: old_bootdev = self.db.get('grub-installer/bootdev')
Dec 22 21:57:57 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 60, in <lambda>
Dec 22 21:57:57 ubuntu plugininstall.py: lambda *args, **kw: self.command(command, *args, **kw))
Dec 22 21:57:57 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 65, in command
Dec 22 21:57:57 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.write.flush()
Dec 22 21:57:57 ubuntu plugininstall.py: IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
Dec 22 21:57:57 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[phaidros (phaidros)]

tho, probably related to my custom partitioning. as I created alle the LVM stuff beforehand (as the installer cant ..), I create a ne w partition map as well, and probably the installer wasnt able to write grub into the GPT partition table or got confused by it. tho, grub2 should seemlessly install into GPT. another hint probably: / was formatted as btrfs.

crash didnt happen with ext4 as filesystems and msdos partition table. all with lvm.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[dino99 (9d9)]

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