Installation failed

Bug #1178120 reported by Gopal
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Bug Description

Fresh installation failed

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: ubiquity 2.14.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.331
Date: Thu May 9 12:17:37 2013
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_IN
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Gopal (gopal-mailme) wrote :
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote : Traceback

Exception during installation:
May 9 06:47:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
May 9 06:47:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1775, in <module>
May 9 06:47:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: install.run()
May 9 06:47:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 78, in wrapper
May 9 06:47:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: func(self)
May 9 06:47:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 253, in run
May 9 06:47:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: self.remove_extras()
May 9 06:47:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1460, in remove_extras
May 9 06:47:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: cache = Cache()
May 9 06:47:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 105, in __init__
May 9 06:47:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: self.open(progress)
May 9 06:47:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 150, in open
May 9 06:47:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: self._cache = apt_pkg.Cache(progress)
May 9 06:47:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: SystemError: E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /target/var/lib/apt/lists/in.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_raring_main_i18n_Translation-en, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
May 9 06:47:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py:

tags: added: installer-crash
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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 https://api.launchpad.net/1.0/bugs/1178120

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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