Installer crashed when almost complete

[Jack Ostroff]

Installer (kubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64.iso, downloaded July 2022) crashed when almost done. Progress bar said something like checking filesystems 90%. It had already removed all unneeded packages (did minimal install [not from minimal iso]). Problem in that I couldn't get a console from the main installer screen (or just didn't know how) so tried to send but from Ctl-Alt-F2 console, but that obviously failed to launch a brower. Eventually the installer finished/crashed (?) and put me in live mode, so I redid the report. Hopefully it's not a duplicate. Until I reboot, I won't know if the install got far enough to use the system or if I need to start from scratch. I also can't tell if ubuntu-bug actually uploaded anything or not, and this reporting only allows a single attachment, so hopefully I can upload /var/log/partman later. However, I had pre-partitioned and root was /var/log/vgo1-lv_root and /boot was /dev/sdc1. At this point, /target has been unmounted (by the installer, not by me)

This is an old box pre UEFI.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: ubiquity 22.04.15 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-25.25-generic 5.15.30
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.470
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sat Jun 24 19:00:03 2023
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/kubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220419)
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jack Ostroff (ostroffjh)]

It looks like /var/log/partman did get uploaded.

Note /dev/sda was the install USB thumb drive, /dev/sdc was the target drive (1TB HDD). /dev/sdb is the old failed drive in the PC, and was intermittently generating plenty of read errors.

[Jack Ostroff (ostroffjh)]

Rebooting into the installed system was successful, but there were over 400 upgrades available. I did tell the installer to download updates, so hopefully it's just because it hadn't gotten to them by the time it crashed.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Jun 24 22:53:23 kubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jun 24 22:53:23 kubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/install_misc.py", line 416, in run
Jun 24 22:53:23 kubuntu plugininstall.py: res = pm.do_install(self.write_stream.fileno())
Jun 24 22:53:23 kubuntu plugininstall.py: apt_pkg.Error: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Jun 24 22:53:23 kubuntu plugininstall.py: