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ubiquity package

installer crashes when installing over previous installation - ecryptfs-utils failed to remove: ERROR: Cannot remove ecryptfs-utils, as it appears to be in use

Bug #990153 reported by James C Crough
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Bug Description

as above

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.10.16
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.315
Date: Fri Apr 27 15:19:45 2012
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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James C Crough (aztroll) wrote :
Aditya V (kroq-gar78)
summary: - unstaller crashes when installing over previios installation
+ installer crashes when installing over previous installation
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote : Traceback

Exception during installation:
Apr 27 22:19:18 ubuntu plugininstall.py: SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Apr 27 22:19:18 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

tags: added: installer-crash
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote : Re: installer crashes when installing over previous installation

Thanks for your report

Error from the logs:
"""
Apr 27 22:18:49 ubuntu ubiquity: Removing ecryptfs-utils ...
Apr 27 22:18:49 ubuntu ubiquity: ERROR: Cannot remove ecryptfs-utils, as it appears to be in use:
Apr 27 22:18:49 ubuntu ubiquity: [/home/aztroll/.ecryptfs]
Apr 27 22:18:49 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: error processing ecryptfs-utils (--purge):
Apr 27 22:18:49 ubuntu ubiquity: subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
"""

summary: - installer crashes when installing over previous installation
+ installer crashes when installing over previous installation - ecryptfs-
+ utils failed to remove: ERROR: Cannot remove ecryptfs-utils, as it
+ appears to be in use
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 998492, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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