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ubiquity package

ubuntu 12.04 alpha installer crash

Bug #916902 reported by candtalan on 2012-01-15

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #894768: Installation randomly fails with: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/install_misc.py", line 621, in copy_file targetfh.write(buf) IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument . Edit Remove

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

Bug Description

usb install
alpha 1 install attempted

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.9.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-2.5-generic 3.2.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-2-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.292
Date: Sun Jan 15 19:41:38 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20111129.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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candtalan (aeclist) wrote on 2012-01-15:

Casper.txt Edit (3.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (3.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityDebug.txt Edit (366 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityPartman.txt Edit (618.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquitySyslog.txt Edit (139.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2012-01-16:

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 894768, 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.

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texaswriter (in-texas-d) wrote on 2012-02-13:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1918587

WORKAROUND: Although this does not fix the problem, it is a workaround. When installing from Ubiquity, uncheck "Install Third Party ...".

This is a bug from alpha 1 (STILL IN alpha 2, CONFIRMED by me).

This bug crashed the installer twice for me.