Installation on USB stick (64GB USB 3.0) using VMware

[Arjan Vlek]

This crash came up on "configuring the system" stage (begin of second progress bar filling during the installation).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubiquity 2.18.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.340
Date: Sat Feb 7 18:25:56 2015
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=nl_NL.UTF-8
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Feb 7 16:51:56 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 7 16:51:56 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1770, in <module>
Feb 7 16:51:56 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: install.run()
Feb 7 16:51:56 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 78, in wrapper
Feb 7 16:51:56 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: func(self)
Feb 7 16:51:56 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 192, in run
Feb 7 16:51:56 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: self.configure_python()
Feb 7 16:51:56 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 377, in configure_python
Feb 7 16:51:56 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: install_misc.chroot_setup(self.target)
Feb 7 16:51:56 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/install_misc.py", line 123, in chroot_setup
Feb 7 16:51:56 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: with open(policy_rc_d, 'w') as f:
Feb 7 16:51:56 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: OSError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/target/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d'
Feb 7 16:51:56 ubuntu /plugininstall.py:

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

What is the underlying backing store of the virtual disk? It looks like it is unreliable and has corrupted the filesystem placed on it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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