install crash

[Dirk Eickhoff]

the installation abort

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 x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Thu Mar 15 01:48:18 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Mar 15 01:47:50 ubuntu plugininstall.py: SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Mar 15 01:47:50 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Mar 15 01:46:36 ubuntu ubiquity: Unpacking replacement language-pack-en-base ...
Mar 15 01:46:36 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg-deb (subprocess): data: internal bzip2 read error: 'DATA_ERROR'
Mar 15 01:46:36 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg-deb: error: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2
Mar 15 01:46:36 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: error processing /target/var/cache/apt/archives/language-pack-en-base_1%3a11.10+20120103_all.deb (--unpack):
Mar 15 01:46:36 ubuntu ubiquity: short read on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/share/locale-langpack/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/gnupg.mo'

[Matt Parlette (matthew-parlette)]

Thank you for reporting this. I see some errors in the syslog (Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.), but are you able to retry the installation and get the same results?

[Bernd Porr (berndporr)]

I can confirm this or a similar crash. In my case there is nothing in dmesg. It always happens after I've typed in my login details. Then the next screen stays empty and then the installer just dies.

[Bernd Porr (berndporr)]

I've run ubiquity in a terminal to see if there's any debug output but it just quits without any output.