At end of install process, installer said "fatal error"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
...and yet another dialogue box said "Installation complete. You need to restart the computer..."
This happened while installing Ubuntu Mate 20.10 onto a partition alongside other existing partitions with Ubuntu & Linux Mint installed on them. I nominated the new partition with Ubuntu Mate (sda5) mountpoint as root, as the installer wouldn't let me continue without doing so, even though I had done this previously with other installs alongside this one on the same laptop, and Grub 2.x is already on this computer & has worked fine at bootup.
Thanks,
Ken.
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: ubiquity 20.10.13
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CasperVersion: 1.455
Date: Sat Jan 16 11:11:46 2021
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Release amd64 (20201022)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
RebootRequiredPkgs:
linux-
linux-base
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
tags: | removed: groovy ubuntu-mate |
So, after the above, another dialogue box appeared which said "an unrecoverable error occurred", and said that a desktop session would be started so that I could investigate the error, which then booted me into a MATE live session. As I didn't know how to investigate the issue, I simply attempted to reboot into the MATE partition.
At this point, I got a black screen with white text saying:
"You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type 'journalctl -xb' to view system logs, 'systemctl reboot' to reboot, ..." - none of the options presented got me to a workable desktop.
Thanks,
K.
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