Installer crashed at the end

Bug #1027531 reported by Graeme Geldenhuys
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Bug Description

I simply booted from the Kubuntu ISO image (using a USB stick). I ran the installer, answered all the questions. I used JFS for the / and /home partitions on a OCZ Vertex 4 SSD. The installer crashes at the end, and I have no idea why! This is a brand new machine, just built.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.10.16
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.315
Date: Sun Jul 22 00:59:45 2012
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=(loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/boot/iso/kubuntu-12.04-desktop-amd64.iso noeject noprompt --
LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Graeme Geldenhuys (graemeg) wrote :
George Gill (ggilliii10)
description: updated
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Graeme Geldenhuys (graemeg) wrote :

You can close this report, I found a solution... I moved to FreeBSD and haven't experienced any problems for months.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

From the syslog file:

Jul 21 23:58:20 kubuntu ubiquity: Unpacking linux-headers-3.2.0-23 (from .../linux-headers-3.2.0-23_3.2.0-23.36_all.deb) ...
Jul 21 23:58:31 kubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: error processing /cdrom//pool/main/l/linux/linux-headers-3.2.0-23_3.2.0-23.36_all.deb (--unpack):
Jul 21 23:58:31 kubuntu ubiquity: unable to open '/target/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-23/include/linux/netfilter/xt_connmark.h.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
Jul 21 23:58:31 kubuntu ubiquity: No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Jul 21 23:58:31 kubuntu ubiquity: Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-3.2.0-23-generic.
Jul 21 23:58:31 kubuntu ubiquity: Unpacking linux-headers-3.2.0-23-generic (from .../linux-headers-3.2.0-23-g

tags: added: kubuntu
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Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. If you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 1027531

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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