ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_bootloader()

[Dave M.]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

This happens when trying to install Ubuntu 8.10 from CD. The CD was tested for errors. It may be the same bug as others of similar name. I hope the system here attaches the relevant data that it presented to me, then asked me to report.

II see that the system did not install a grub folder in /boot, so there is no grub.configuration files. I checked this my creating a mount point, and mounting the partition I am trying to install it on. I see that it did create a user folder with my name in the /home folder. There is open space between some partitions, and the highest numbered partition is sda15. I have verified that the partitions are in proper numerical order.

I have previously installed kubuntu 8.10 on this computer, and it did not have this problem.

Like others have mentioned, I get thrown back to the live CD window, with a user name of ubuntu when I ask whoami. The system might be able to boot if I crafted an entry for it in my operative grub menu.lst file.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: ubiquity 1.10.10
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity --only
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', '--only']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_bootloader()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
UserGroups:

[DAP (akadap)]

Attempting to re-install Ubuntu after many failed attempts to get video & sound working failed.
Got this error after telling the installer to use safe video and to use the whole disk (1.5 TB) (installer hangs with the monitor hibernating if I try normal video).

I had effectively told the installer to wipe the disk and start over.