Installation fails when using an existing partition for /home : "ubi-usersetup failed with exit code 141" when installing (or upgrading to) 18.04 from USB
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Summary says it all. I chose to updgrade my distribution using today's 18.04 candidate on USB. While on the screen for choosing username, I got a window "ubi-usersetup crashed" which gives the error
"ubi-usersetup failed with exit code 141" and warns the install/upgrade could fail.
$ more /var/log/syslog
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="8.16.0"
x-pid="1108" x-info="http://
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu rsyslogd: rsyslogd's groupid changed to 106
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu rsyslogd: rsyslogd's userid changed to 102
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: Started Create Static Device Nodes in /dev.
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: Starting udev Kernel Device Manager...
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: Starting Flush Journal to Persistent Storage.
..
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: Started Flush Journal to Persistent Storage.
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: Started Set the console keyboard layout.
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu systemd-
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu systemd-
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu systemd-
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: Started Load Kernel Modules.
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: Starting Apply Kernel Variables...
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: Mounting Kernel Configuration File System...
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: Mounting FUSE Control File System...
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: Mounted Kernel Configuration File System.
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: Mounted FUSE Control File System.
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: Started LVM2 metadata daemon.
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: Started Apply Kernel Variables.
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: Started udev Kernel Device Manager.
Apr 5 05:12:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: Starting Show Plymouth Boot Screen...
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubuntu-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.392
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Apr 4 22:24:44 2018
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180403)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=C.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
The error occurs in immediate response to submitting the username/password dialog box.
I chose "try again", got the same result, so chose "Ignore". The installation hung (processes go to zero; there's a busy pointer in the install window, but otherwise system is working), having made my root/install partition unusable.
Next, I tried a fresh install into that partition, and got the same problem.
(So now my computer is left unusuable.)