13.10 ubuntu gnome install failed

[aloxley]

I was trying to install 13.10 ubuntu gnome to my samsung T700i tablet. Unfortunately it crashes half way through. I found this occurring for the stable 13.04 release as well.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: ubiquity 2.15.20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-8.15-generic 3.11.1
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.4-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.336ubuntu1
Date: Sun Sep 29 18:02:14 2013
InstallCmdLine: initrd=/casper/initrd.lz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-gnome.seed boot=casper quiet splash -- BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20130926)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Sep 29 08:02:02 ubuntu-gnome /plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Sep 29 08:02:02 ubuntu-gnome /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1780, in <module>
Sep 29 08:02:02 ubuntu-gnome /plugininstall.py: install.run()
Sep 29 08:02:02 ubuntu-gnome /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 78, in wrapper
Sep 29 08:02:02 ubuntu-gnome /plugininstall.py: func(self)
Sep 29 08:02:02 ubuntu-gnome /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 202, in run
Sep 29 08:02:02 ubuntu-gnome /plugininstall.py: self.configure_apt()
Sep 29 08:02:02 ubuntu-gnome /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 665, in configure_apt
Sep 29 08:02:02 ubuntu-gnome /plugininstall.py: "AptSetup failed with code %d" % ret)
Sep 29 08:02:02 ubuntu-gnome /plugininstall.py: ubiquity.install_misc.InstallStepError: AptSetup failed with code 141
Sep 29 08:02:02 ubuntu-gnome /plugininstall.py:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

It looks like there may be an issue with the media from which you were installing:

Sep 29 08:01:20 ubuntu-gnome apt-setup: E: Failed to stat /cdrom/dev/fd/4/var/lib/rpm/Packages - stat (2: No such file or directory)
Sep 29 08:01:20 ubuntu-gnome apt-setup: E: Unable to parse Release file /cdrom/dists/saucy/Release
Sep 29 08:01:20 ubuntu-gnome apt-setup: E: Stat failed for /cdrom/dev/fd/4/var/lib/rpm/Packages - stat (2: No such file or directory)
Sep 29 08:01:20 ubuntu-gnome apt-setup: E: No CD-ROM could be auto-detected or found using the default mount point.
Sep 29 08:01:20 ubuntu-gnome apt-setup: You may try the --cdrom option to set the CD-ROM mount point. See 'man apt-cdrom' for more information about the CD-ROM auto-detection and mount point.

Could you try checking it for defects? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/CDIntegrityCheck

[aloxley (alistair-oxley)]

Hi Brian,
I was able to get this working, by following the instructions on the following bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/658865

Essentially all I needed to do was the following:
sudo rm /usr/lib/ubiquity/apt-setup/generators/40cdrom

And it got past the point of the installation that kept crashing.
I wasn't actually installing via a CD, I was using a usb live-cd created in linux mint using unetbootin.

Feel free to close this if you would like (or do i need to? This is the first time i've submitted a bug) :)

Cheers,
Alistair.