intaller crashed when running update grub on my USB HDD

[Peter Wilcox]

When trying to install 14.10 from DVD to new hardware onto my USB HDD (sdb) with a previous installation of 14.10 the istaller failed when trying to "update grub"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: ubiquity 2.20.0 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-23.31-generic 3.16.4
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.345
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Tue Mar 10 14:54:21 2015
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/kubuntu.seed boot=casper maybe-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UpstartUbiquity: debconf: DbDriver "templatedb": /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Mar 10 14:24:40 kubuntu /plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Mar 10 14:24:40 kubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1770, in <module>
Mar 10 14:24:40 kubuntu /plugininstall.py: install.run()
Mar 10 14:24:40 kubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 78, in wrapper
Mar 10 14:24:40 kubuntu /plugininstall.py: func(self)
Mar 10 14:24:40 kubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 202, in run
Mar 10 14:24:40 kubuntu /plugininstall.py: self.configure_apt()
Mar 10 14:24:40 kubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 655, in configure_apt
Mar 10 14:24:40 kubuntu /plugininstall.py: "AptSetup failed with code %d" % ret)
Mar 10 14:24:40 kubuntu /plugininstall.py: ubiquity.install_misc.InstallStepError: AptSetup failed with code 1
Mar 10 14:24:40 kubuntu /plugininstall.py:

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Looks like ubiquity is trying to run things in parallel that need to be serialized:

Mar 10 14:53:23 kubuntu ubiquity: apt-install or in-target is already running, so you cannot run either of
Mar 10 14:53:23 kubuntu ubiquity: them again until the other instance finishes. You may be able to use
Mar 10 14:53:23 kubuntu ubiquity: 'chroot /target ...' instead.
Mar 10 14:53:23 kubuntu in-target: Unexpected error; command not executed: 'update-grub'

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

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 1430389

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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