Precise Pangolin Installer crashed with: Error: `/etc/resolv.conf` and `/target/etc/resolv.conf` are the same file

[Willem Pieterson]

About half way through the installation process the installer crashed. It was a fresh install with 3 partitions (Swap, / , /home)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.9.11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-11.19-generic-pae 3.2.1
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-11-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.301
Date: Fri Jan 27 09:11:46 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120127)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Jan 27 15:11:23 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jan 27 15:11:23 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1661, in <module>
Jan 27 15:11:23 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Jan 27 15:11:23 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 56, in wrapper
Jan 27 15:11:23 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Jan 27 15:11:23 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 155, in run
Jan 27 15:11:23 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.configure_network()
Jan 27 15:11:23 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 385, in configure_network
Jan 27 15:11:23 ubuntu plugininstall.py: shutil.copy2(path, os.path.join(self.target, path[1:]))
Jan 27 15:11:23 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 128, in copy2
Jan 27 15:11:23 ubuntu plugininstall.py: copyfile(src, dst)
Jan 27 15:11:23 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 69, in copyfile
Jan 27 15:11:23 ubuntu plugininstall.py: raise Error("`%s` and `%s` are the same file" % (src, dst))
Jan 27 15:11:23 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Error: `/etc/resolv.conf` and `/target/etc/resolv.conf` are the same file
Jan 27 15:11:23 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.9.12

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ubiquity (2.9.12) precise; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Drop backports of saved ID handling functions from os, now that we
    require Python 2.7.
  * Remove an unnecessary use of contextlib.closing.
  * Simplify PartedServer.disks.
  * Add tests for ubiquity.osextras.
  * Cope with /etc/resolv.conf being a symlink (LP: #922640).
  * Scale down the webcam page a bit so that it works on netbook screens
    (LP: #869239).
  * Improve test_pages_fit_on_a_netbook so that it tests all pages.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: choose-mirror 2.39ubuntu2,
    debian-installer-utils 1.88ubuntu2, flash-kernel 2.28ubuntu37,
    partman-base 153ubuntu1.

  [ Stéphane Graber ]
  * gtk_ui.py: Update rendering of GtkComboBox following light-themes update
    (was dark text on dark background, now light text on dark background)

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * gtk_ui.py: In only-ubiquity mode, call apport-gtk frontend ourselves after
    a crash, as there is no update-notifier running to pick it up.
    (LP: #712677)

  [ Luke Yelavich ]
  * Add label relationships in the advanced partitioning and user info steps
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:37:17 +0000