Netboot install fails with "Failed to load installer component - Loading libntfs-3g23-udeb failed for unknown reasons. Aborting."

[eci_souji]

A network based install fails with the following message....

Failed to load installer component - Loading libntfs-3g23-udeb failed for unknown reasons. Aborting."

This problem started happening today 6.10.08 for people trying to do network installs of Ubuntu Hardy 8.0.4 There is a thread of people with the issue here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=824576

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

I just encountered this as well. I examined the file in my mirror but couldn't see anything obviously wrong with libntfs-3g23-udeb_1.2216-1ubuntu2_i386.udeb

[psypointer (mail-felixbecker)]

yeah, i've got the same problem on my machines here. a few days ago the installation worked perfectly, now this error comes. is there any possibility to prevent the libntfs-3g23-udeb from loading / ignoring this error? i need a working preseed here and i dont need that m$ ntfs shit.

thanks

psypointer

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This is bug 234486, and should be fixed in hardy-proposed. Please try the netboot images under http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-proposed/main/installer-i386/current/ and verify that it's really fixed.

[eci_souji (eci-souji)]

An amd64 based install just worked with the newly proposed initrd.gz file. Thanks for the fix! :)