Installation of Pangolin Beta 2 failed.

[Manveru]

Installation just failed close to the end. I even do not know it which state the stystem is left.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.10.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.33-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.312
Date: Sun Apr 15 19:34:02 2012
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- debian-installer/language=pl keyboard-configuration/layoutcode?=pl
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pl_PL.UTF-8
 TERM=unknown
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Apr 15 17:26:35 ubuntu plugininstall.py: SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Apr 15 17:26:35 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

From the logs the error is :
Apr 15 17:25:32 ubuntu ubiquity: Setting up update-notifier-common (0.119ubuntu7) ...
Apr 15 17:25:41 ubuntu ubiquity:
Apr 15 17:25:41 ubuntu ubiquity: Configuration file `/etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common' (actually `/target/etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common')
Apr 15 17:25:41 ubuntu ubiquity: ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
Apr 15 17:25:41 ubuntu ubiquity: ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
Apr 15 17:25:41 ubuntu ubiquity: What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Apr 15 17:25:41 ubuntu ubiquity: Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
Apr 15 17:25:41 ubuntu ubiquity: N or O : keep your currently-installed version
Apr 15 17:25:41 ubuntu ubiquity: D : show the differences between the versions
Apr 15 17:25:41 ubuntu ubiquity: Z : start a shell to examine the situation
Apr 15 17:25:41 ubuntu ubiquity: The default action is to keep your current version.
Apr 15 17:25:41 ubuntu ubiquity: *** update-notifier-common (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? dpkg: error processing update-notifier-common (--configure):
Apr 15 17:25:41 ubuntu ubiquity: EOF on stdin at conffile prompt

Could you please describe the setup of your system before you installed Precise Beta 2 and the steps you follow to install Beta 2 and get this error ?

I also noticed from the logs that a custom source.list and a ppa are enable:
http://apt.spideroak.com
http://ppa.launchpad.net precise

And this errors
Apr 15 13:30:19 ubuntu ubiquity: ERROR: '/target//@' exists
Apr 15 13:30:49 ubuntu ubiquity: ERROR: '/target/home/@home' exists

[Manveru (manveru)]

> Could you please describe the setup of your system before you installed
> Precise Beta 2 and the steps you follow to install Beta 2 and get this
> error ?
>

My setup is Lenovo R61 notebook with single SATA HDD. I have old
installation of the Pangolin beta 1 system.

I tried to over-install beta 2 on my screwed btrfs-partition (upgrade
failed previously and broke libc6*). But independently from the notice the
old configuration of the system seem to be not deleted from the partition
before installation. It was chosen custom partitioning, then to existing
partitions I added tags to /boot (/dev/sda3), / (dev/sda2), I do nothing to
swap (/dev/sda1).

> I also noticed from the logs that a custom source.list and a ppa are
> enable:
> http://apt.spideroak.com
> http://ppa.launchpad.net precise
>

That was on original system before it fails.

> And this errors
> Apr 15 13:30:19 ubuntu ubiquity: ERROR: '/target//@' exists
> Apr 15 13:30:49 ubuntu ubiquity: ERROR: '/target/home/@home' exists
>

And yes - these are my volumes on btrfs partition created during
installation of beta 1. I later add /boot ext2 parition (resizing) to avoid
problems with grub2.

For me this is strange that the installer cannot fix the existing broken
installation or just cleanly overinstall without touching /home.

* - I finally succeed with removing it from that partition but failed on
restoring it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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