apt couldn't get configured during installation

[Bernhard Nikola]

apt configuring fails. You can exit, but the installation fails, too.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubiquity 2.17.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-18.38-generic 3.13.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-18-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.338
Date: Tue Mar 18 23:03:18 2014
InstallCmdLine: initrd=/casper/initrd.lz file=/cdrom/preseed/xubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash -- BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140318)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Bernhard Nikola (bnikola)]

getting packages from CD fails, but i installed from USB...a hint ?

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Mar 18 22:03:04 xubuntu /plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Mar 18 22:03:04 xubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1780, in <module>
Mar 18 22:03:04 xubuntu /plugininstall.py: install.run()
Mar 18 22:03:04 xubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 78, in wrapper
Mar 18 22:03:04 xubuntu /plugininstall.py: func(self)
Mar 18 22:03:04 xubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 202, in run
Mar 18 22:03:04 xubuntu /plugininstall.py: self.configure_apt()
Mar 18 22:03:04 xubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 665, in configure_apt
Mar 18 22:03:04 xubuntu /plugininstall.py: "AptSetup failed with code %d" % ret)
Mar 18 22:03:04 xubuntu /plugininstall.py: ubiquity.install_misc.InstallStepError: AptSetup failed with code 141
Mar 18 22:03:04 xubuntu /plugininstall.py:

[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.]