installer crashes at end of install

[Geoff Milton]

Ubuntu 12.04, it will not boot and if I try to use recovery mode I get error "fake initctl called doing nothing" when for instance I try to resume normal boot. But it installed on my other (desktop) computer beautifully.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.9.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-7.13-generic 3.2.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.296
Date: Tue Jan 10 18:23:55 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120101)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Jan 9 21:15:09 ubuntu plugininstall.py: SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Jan 9 21:15:09 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.

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

I get this message too and I don't see the connection with #850264. Can you please explain?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The error that appears in the syslog.txt file attached to this bug report indicates that libc was trying to be removed, however this error was fixed in later versions of precise. In the event that you, Thomas, are experiencing an error with the installation process i would be helpful if you were to report a bug from the live install environment using the comand 'ubuntu-bug ubiquity'. Thanks in advance.