Kubuntu installer crashes during USB-to-USB install

[Robert Bowmaker]

Kubuntu installer crashed. Details which were unusual about this particular install:

-- Used Kubuntu 11.10_Live 32-bit image
-- Used unetbootin to prepare USB drive, with a 2.7GB persistent file store
-- Finally, installation target was a single 4GB ext4 partition on a different USB drive. No swap space allocated.

Crash occurred after installation questions had been asked, i.e., during the "real" install part.

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 i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Mon Jan 2 17:27:32 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Robert Bowmaker (robert-bowmaker)]

I tried performing the same process with a completely different computer (Core i7 desktop as opposed to 5-year old laptop), and the installer crashed again. This would tend to suggest that the bug is probably not due to a hardware fault.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1641, in <module>
Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 182, in run
Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.configure_hardware()
Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 840, in configure_hardware
Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install_misc.chroot_setup(self.target, x11=True)
Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/install_misc.py", line 155, in chroot_setup
Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: os.path.join(target, 'root/.Xauthority'))
Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 116, in copy
Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: copyfile(src, dst)
Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 81, in copyfile
Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc:
Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/home/ubuntu/.Xauthority'
Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
 Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
 Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1641, in <module>
 Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
 Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
 Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
 Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 182, in run
 Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.configure_hardware()
 Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 840, in configure_hardware
 Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install_misc.chroot_setup(self.target, x11=True)
 Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/install_misc.py", line 155, in chroot_setup
 Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: os.path.join(target, 'root/.Xauthority'))
 Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 116, in copy
 Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: copyfile(src, dst)
 Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 81, in copyfile
 Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc:
 Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/home/ubuntu/.Xauthority'
 Jan 2 17:24:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

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