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Installer crashed while entering name: OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/target/var'

Bug #914531 reported by David D Lowe on 2012-01-10

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #944191: Installation program crashed while typing username. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The installer crashed after I entered my full name, pressing tab to cycle to the next field.

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: Tue Jan 10 23:45:09 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
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)

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David D Lowe (flimm) wrote on 2012-01-10:

Casper.txt Edit (3.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (3.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityDebug.txt Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityDm.txt Edit (9.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityPartman.txt Edit (147.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquitySyslog.txt Edit (108.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Colin Watson (cjwatson) on 2012-03-20

summary:

- Installer crashed while entering name
+ Installer crashed while entering name: OSError: [Errno 17] File exists:
+ '/target/var'

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