During installation Grub install fails; Installation Complete?

Bug #997453 reported by Sonic132
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Bug Description

Installer went extremely slowly until the final step. During Grub Install threw a Grub-install failed error. Prompted me to install on another partition. But since I gave Ubuntu the entire drive. There was only sda and sda1. Neither of which worked.
Don't know what else to try.

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
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.315
Date: Wed May 9 22:58:06 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:
 TERM=unknown
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Sonic132 (sonic132) wrote :
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote : Traceback

Exception during installation:
May 10 03:57:28 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
May 10 03:57:28 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1735, in <module>
May 10 03:57:28 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
May 10 03:57:28 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
May 10 03:57:28 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
May 10 03:57:28 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 215, in run
May 10 03:57:28 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.remove_extras()
May 10 03:57:28 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1469, in remove_extras
May 10 03:57:28 ubuntu plugininstall.py: if self.db.get('apt-setup/restricted') == 'false':
May 10 03:57:28 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 60, in <lambda>
May 10 03:57:28 ubuntu plugininstall.py: lambda *args, **kw: self.command(command, *args, **kw))
May 10 03:57:28 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 81, in command
May 10 03:57:28 ubuntu plugininstall.py: status = int(status)
May 10 03:57:28 ubuntu plugininstall.py: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
May 10 03:57:28 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

tags: added: installer-crash
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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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