installer crashed

[Nathan Paul Beaty]

I was installing after reformatting the drive and this was my second attempt and the installer crashed this time I am reporting it. Right now I can not pullup the control terminal. how do I pull up VT2 without a launcher present?

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 Mar 20 17:42:22 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
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:
Mar 20 17:41:38 ubuntu plugininstall.py: SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault.
Mar 20 17:41:38 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Moving to dpkg as the problem here is clearly dpkg segfaulting.

Looking at the syslog it's not obvious if that was somehow hardware related or an actual dpkg bug, the lack of stacktrace probably won't help debugging it further either :(

[Nathan Paul Beaty (caldronis)]

Right now I am waiting for a live DVD fro OS.com. Then I will try again.
Thanks for the info. so someone changed it from dpkg to ubiqity, that is so
odd.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Stéphane Graber <email address hidden>wrote:

> Moving to dpkg as the problem here is clearly dpkg segfaulting.
>
> Looking at the syslog it's not obvious if that was somehow hardware
> related or an actual dpkg bug, the lack of stacktrace probably won't
> help debugging it further either :(
>
> ** Package changed: ubiquity (Ubuntu) => dpkg (Ubuntu)
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/960653
>
> Title:
> installer crashed
>
> Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> I was installing after reformatting the drive and this was my second
> attempt and the installer crashed this time I am reporting it. Right
> now I can not pullup the control terminal. how do I pull up VT2
> without a launcher present?
>
> 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 Mar 20 17:42:22 2012
> LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SourcePackage: ubiquity
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/960653/+subscriptions
>

[Raphaël Hertzog (hertzog)]

Without any way to reproduce the crash and without any backtrace of the crash, this bug cannot be fixed. Marking it as incomplete.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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