Installer crashed

[jitao]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 120, in ?
    install(sys.argv[1])
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 54, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 266, in run
    self.process_step()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 739, in process_step
    self.mountpoints_to_summary()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 1020, in mountpoints_to_summary
    self.progress_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 538, in progress_loop
    raise RuntimeError, "Install failed with exit code %s" % ret
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1

[jitao (jitao)]

/var/log/installer/syslog

[jitao (jitao)]

/var/log/partman

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 46764. As a workaround, use a non-XFS root filesystem, or create a non-XFS /boot filesystem. grub doesn't deal reliably with being installed onto XFS on many systems.

[towsonu2003 (towsonu2003)]

was marked as dupe hence closing ("fix released" confuses)