ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_bootloader()

[Pietro Battiston]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I absolutely don't know if this bug is a dup of 229281, 260001, 71984 or what; not only I have no clue in understanding if is so, but moreover I thought that reporting the bug as a new one would have brought the trace informations.

My partitions setup is quite messy, because I have several different installations:

Model: ATA WDC WD2500BEVS-6 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
 1 32.3kB 68.9GB 68.9GB primary ntfs boot
 3 68.9GB 233GB 164GB extended
 9 68.9GB 78.9GB 10.0GB logical ext3
10 78.9GB 88.9GB 10.0GB logical ext3
 5 99.9GB 207GB 107GB logical ext3
 6 207GB 217GB 10.0GB logical ext3
 7 217GB 222GB 5001MB logical ext3
 8 222GB 233GB 11.1GB logical ext3
 2 240GB 250GB 10.2GB primary ntfs

Notice there is free space between 10 and 5 and between 8 and 2.

At first, partition 9 and 10 didn't exist, but between 8 and 2 there was swap. I tried making a new installation of intrepid in a new ext3 partition situated where now partition 9 is, but got this bug and was unable to complete installation. I tried several times, but the bug was always triggered.

Finally, I thought maybe ubiquity was unable to deal with double cypher partitions, and while this supposition showed later to be wrong, it luckily did help me: I deleted the swap space and the new partition (9, remember 10 still didn't exist) and tried installing again: this time, no problem, so at the moment partition 9 is a perfectly working intrepid installation.

But the bug is still here if I try to make a new intrepid installation (and unfortunately I have to, but it's a long story with other bugs affecting my intrepid experience): the data I'm attaching refers to a new (temptative of) installation to the partition 10. It fails systematically.

Every ubiquity developer probably know, but anyway: I said the supposition of ubiquity not handling /dev/sda** is wrong because I tested intrepid livecd in a virtual machine and was able to successfully install in /dev/sda13 or so.

I also thought "OK, maybe the problem is if there are more than 9 partitions AND they are not in order", but a virtual machine test showed this is wrong too.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: ubiquity 1.10.10
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity gtk_ui
ProcEnviron: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/proc/8484/environ'
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', 'gtk_ui']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_bootloader()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64
UserGroups:

[Pietro Battiston (toobaz)]

As requested in bug 69944 by Simon Law, I'm attaching /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman

Notice I can replicate this bug at any time is more info is needed (but also notice it takes me half an hour at every time...)

[Pietro Battiston (toobaz)]

Here's syslog

[Jim Rorie (jfrorie)]

I had the same crash, on a nearly identical machine except that I was installing on a 320GB using the whole disk. No partitions. It was a hardware raid, but the mirror was broken at the time.

Failed to install grub.