precise beta install failure

[jerrylamos]

precise beta won't install, no install icon on the desktop. Using install from launcher, it flickers a bit then does nothing, returns to steady launcher display.

zsync'd as of today March 8, apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade after booting the .iso successfully (this is it running here now)

Phillinux suggested I try cli install. Here's failure message from that:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo ubiquity
Inhibit all polling failed: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.2.0-18-generic-pae (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu2) ) #28-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 2 22:11:12 UTC 2012

I tried ubuntu-bug ubiquity:

The problem cannot be reported:
This is not an official Ubuntu package. Please remove any third party package and try again.

Acer Aspire one netbook, precise pangolin running well (for an alpha updated to beta) in another partition. Runs unity-3D etc.

Running live in 1 GB memory quite well firefox et. al. except for ubiquity. I have two other test pc's precise beta installed fine.

cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu family : 6
model : 28
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N455 @ 1.66GHz
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm dts
bogomips : 3325.15
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 32 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

Poked around at logs, attaching /var/log/installer/debug

Note, tried install from launcher and cli maybe sone of the debug has info from those attempts. I don't know enough to interpret the log.

Anything else of use?

Thanks, Jerry

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

zsync every day and try again:

no install icon on desktop

install from launcher flickers a while. A launch icon appears briefly seems to be "gksudo".

install from cli fails as above posts:

Quote:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo ubiquity
Inhibit all polling failed: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success
Same thing either "ubiquity" or "sudo ubiquity" or "gksudo ubiquity"

Have been booting .iso from USB port. Copied today's zsync updated file to hard drive, booted the .iso, same result.

Do note using the same techniques Oneiric installs successfully. Also, precise Beta installs successfully on Compaq Presario tower and on IBM Thinkpad T40,

? Any ideas anyone?

Do note, when running "Live", runs well for a live environment and of course gets several failures "already reported" it says, does not give the title of the bugs, then continues to run.

Jerry

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

"startup disk creator" to USB pen drive same install failures as above. All up to date as of March 9.

ubuntu-bug ubiquity fails as above. It does create a couple files, a "installer_debug+log" attached and a "bug" file I'll post next.

Anything else of use?

Jerry

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

Here's the "bug" file created

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

Found a casper-rw partition on the other hard drive. Formatted and renamed it. Some data on it must not have been initialized when the new .iso was booted.

Install went normally then.

Jerry

[Nicholas Skaggs (nskaggs)]

Jerry, so have you isolated the problem? This is still happening on the dailies right?