Installer crashed during "grub install"

[David Eisenblaetter]

Kubuntu DVD - OEM amd64 Alpha 2

Internal hdd was not connectet with the pc. I have use the external hdd with usb 2.0 connection. The Installing crashed at the point "grub install".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.9.15 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-12.21-generic 3.2.2
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.302
Date: Sun Feb 12 21:40:23 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120201.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Feb 12 20:39:07 kubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 12 20:39:07 kubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1669, in <module>
Feb 12 20:39:07 kubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Feb 12 20:39:07 kubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 56, in wrapper
Feb 12 20:39:07 kubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Feb 12 20:39:07 kubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 200, in run
Feb 12 20:39:07 kubuntu plugininstall.py: self.configure_bootloader()
Feb 12 20:39:07 kubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 966, in configure_bootloader
Feb 12 20:39:07 kubuntu plugininstall.py: self.db.input('critical', bootdev)
Feb 12 20:39:07 kubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 60, in <lambda>
Feb 12 20:39:07 kubuntu plugininstall.py: lambda *args, **kw: self.command(command, *args, **kw))
Feb 12 20:39:07 kubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 81, in command
Feb 12 20:39:07 kubuntu plugininstall.py: status = int(status)
Feb 12 20:39:07 kubuntu plugininstall.py: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
Feb 12 20:39:07 kubuntu plugininstall.py:

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Feb 12 20:36:22 kubuntu grub-installer: info: architecture: amd64/generic
Feb 12 20:36:24 kubuntu ata_id[20447]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for '/dev/sda': Invalid argument
Feb 12 20:36:24 kubuntu grub-installer: info: Identified partition label for /dev/sda1: msdos
Feb 12 20:36:26 kubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub
Feb 12 20:36:26 kubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub-legacy
Feb 12 20:36:26 kubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub-efi
Feb 12 20:36:26 kubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub-efi-amd64-bin
Feb 12 20:36:26 kubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub-efi-amd64
Feb 12 20:36:26 kubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub-efi-ia32-bin
Feb 12 20:36:26 kubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub-efi-ia32
Feb 12 20:36:27 kubuntu ubiquity: ERROR:
Feb 12 20:36:27 kubuntu ubiquity: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sda.
Feb 12 20:36:27 kubuntu ubiquity:
Feb 12 20:36:27 kubuntu ubiquity: ERROR:
Feb 12 20:36:27 kubuntu ubiquity: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sda.
Feb 12 20:36:27 kubuntu ubiquity:
Feb 12 20:36:27 kubuntu ubiquity: ERROR:
Feb 12 20:36:27 kubuntu ubiquity: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sda.
Feb 12 20:36:27 kubuntu ubiquity:
Feb 12 20:36:27 kubuntu os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests on /dev/sda2
Feb 12 20:36:27 kubuntu 50mounted-tests: debug: /dev/sda2 type not recognised; skipping
Feb 12 20:36:27 kubuntu os-prober: debug: os detected by /usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests
Feb 12 20:36:27 kubuntu os-prober: debug: /dev/sda5: is active swap
Feb 12 20:36:27 kubuntu ata_id[20627]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for '/dev/sda': Invalid argument
Feb 12 20:36:27 kubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
Feb 12 20:36:28 kubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
Feb 12 20:36:28 kubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --no-floppy --force "/dev/sda"
Feb 12 20:36:29 kubuntu grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-probe: Fehler: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check your device.map.
Feb 12 20:36:29 kubuntu grub-installer: Auto-detection of a filesystem of /dev/sda1 failed.
Feb 12 20:36:29 kubuntu grub-installer: Try with --recheck.
Feb 12 20:36:29 kubuntu grub-installer: If the problem persists please report this together with the output of "/usr/sbin/grub-probe --device-map="/boot/grub/device.map" --target=fs -v /boot/grub" to <email address hidden>
Feb 12 20:36:29 kubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --no-floppy --force "/dev/sda"' failed.
Feb 12 20:39:07 kubuntu activate-dmraid: No Serial ATA RAID disks detected

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Earlier we also see error messages about /dev/sda1:

Feb 12 20:18:30 kubuntu ata_id[4803]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for '/dev/sda': Invalid argument
Feb 12 20:18:31 kubuntu ata_id[4868]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for '/dev/sda': Invalid argument
Feb 12 20:18:31 kubuntu kernel: [ 160.371708] blockdev: sending ioctl 125d to a partition!
Feb 12 20:18:31 kubuntu kernel: [ 160.371712] blockdev: sending ioctl 125d to a partition!
Feb 12 20:18:31 kubuntu kernel: [ 160.532357] EXT4-fs (sda1): no journal found
Feb 12 20:18:31 kubuntu ubiquity: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
Feb 12 20:18:31 kubuntu ubiquity: missing codepage or helper program, or other error
Feb 12 20:18:31 kubuntu ubiquity: In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
Feb 12 20:18:31 kubuntu ubiquity: dmesg | tail or so

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 931135

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]