Crash of ubiquity while fresh installing Ubuntu 12.04.2

[meequz]

Just installing Ubuntu 12.04.2 for fresh.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.10.24
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-23.35~precise1-generic 3.5.7.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.315.1
Date: Sun Apr 14 14:59:23 2013
InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- debian-installer/language=be keyboard-configuration/layoutcode?=by
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130214)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=be_BY.UTF-8
 TERM=unknown
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=be_BY.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 14 11:59:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Apr 14 11:59:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1730, in <module>
Apr 14 11:59:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Apr 14 11:59:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
Apr 14 11:59:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Apr 14 11:59:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 265, in run
Apr 14 11:59:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.db.progress('SET', self.count)
Apr 14 11:59:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 60, in <lambda>
Apr 14 11:59:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: lambda *args, **kw: self.command(command, *args, **kw))
Apr 14 11:59:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 81, in command
Apr 14 11:59:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: status = int(status)
Apr 14 11:59:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
Apr 14 11:59:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

From the log file it looks like you actually were installing over an existing Precise install and there was a crash in apt-clone:

Apr 14 11:58:44 ubuntu ubiquity: Traceback (most recent call last):
Apr 14 11:58:44 ubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/bin/apt-clone", line 117, in <module>
Apr 14 11:58:44 ubuntu ubiquity: args.source, args.destination, args.new_distro_codename, protect_installed)
Apr 14 11:58:44 ubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt_clone.py", line 327, in restore_state
Apr 14 11:58:44 ubuntu ubiquity: self._restore_sources_list(statefile, targetdir)
Apr 14 11:58:44 ubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt_clone.py", line 366, in _restore_sources_list
Apr 14 11:58:44 ubuntu ubiquity: tar.extract(self.TARPREFIX+"etc/apt/sources.list", targetdir)
Apr 14 11:58:44 ubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2076, in extract
Apr 14 11:58:44 ubuntu ubiquity: tarinfo = self.getmember(member)
Apr 14 11:58:44 ubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 1796, in getmember
Apr 14 11:58:44 ubuntu ubiquity: raise KeyError("filename %r not found" % name)
Apr 14 11:58:44 ubuntu ubiquity: KeyError: "filename './etc/apt/sources.list' not found"

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Actually, I wonder when apt-clone is run as this happens rather early:

Apr 14 10:59:08 ubuntu clear_partitions: Removing etc from / (/dev/sdb3).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.