installer creshes in grub install

Bug #104669 reported by Martin
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 166, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 161, in main
    install(sys.argv[1])
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 57, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 305, in run
    self.process_step()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 856, in process_step
    self.progress_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 628, in progress_loop
    raise RuntimeError, ("Install failed with exit code %s\n%s" %
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1404, in ?
    install.run()
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 385, in run
    self.configure_bootloader()
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1163, in configure_bootloader
    raise InstallStepError(
InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1

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Martin (mah-alslug) wrote :
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Martin (mah-alslug) wrote :
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

While it shouldn't have crashed, the cause of this is that you've run out of disk space.

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Martin (mah-alslug) wrote : Re: [Bug 104669] Re: installer crashes in grub install

Colin Watson said:
> While it shouldn't have crashed, the cause of this is that you've run
> out of disk space.
I know. But the error message told me so file this report.

Anyway it implies another error, during installation i am told that there
must be a / partition with 2G free, so I made a / part with 2.1G but this
was not enough.

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Thomas David (nemphis) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You have submitted your bugreport some time ago. Have you been able to resolve this issue?

Changed in ubiquity:
status: New → Incomplete
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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in ubiquity:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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