install

[clint kuhn]

installer crashed

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: ubiquity 2.12.16
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.328
Date: Mon Dec 31 12:41:56 2012
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Dec 31 17:37:15 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Dec 31 17:37:15 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 81, in wrapper
Dec 31 17:37:15 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Dec 31 17:37:15 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 308, in run
Dec 31 17:37:15 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.copy_logs()
Dec 31 17:37:15 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1665, in copy_logs
Dec 31 17:37:15 ubuntu plugininstall.py: if not misc.execute('cp', '-a', log_file, target_log_file):
Dec 31 17:37:15 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/misc.py", line 543, in execute
Dec 31 17:37:15 ubuntu plugininstall.py: status = subprocess.call(log_args)
Dec 31 17:37:15 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python3.2/subprocess.py", line 471, in call
Dec 31 17:37:15 ubuntu plugininstall.py: return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
Dec 31 17:37:15 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python3.2/subprocess.py", line 745, in __init__
Dec 31 17:37:15 ubuntu plugininstall.py: restore_signals, start_new_session)
Dec 31 17:37:15 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python3.2/subprocess.py", line 1207, in _execute_child
Dec 31 17:37:15 ubuntu plugininstall.py: restore_signals, start_new_session, preexec_fn)
Dec 31 17:37:15 ubuntu plugininstall.py: OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory
Dec 31 17:37:15 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[Jackson Doak (noskcaj)]

Are you able to show what i would need to do to repeat the bug?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

It looks to me like this machine does not have much memory available - in ubiquity.syslog we see:

Memory: 474288k/515904k available (6711k kernel code, 452k absent, 41164k reserved, 6459k data, 928k init)

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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