Ubuntu installer crashes on /target/home missing

[Zbigniew Braniecki]

While installing daily Ubuntu on my virtual machine I encountered a crash reported in syslog as:

Jul 4 01:15:55 ubuntu ubiquity[3955]: debconffilter_done: PartmanCommit (current: None)
Jul 4 01:15:59 ubuntu python: keeping packages due to preseeding: icedtea6-plugin openoffice.org
Jul 4 01:15:59 ubuntu python: keeping language packs for: en
Jul 4 01:15:59 ubuntu ubiquity: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jul 4 01:15:59 ubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 2255, in <module>
Jul 4 01:15:59 ubuntu ubiquity:
Jul 4 01:15:59 ubuntu ubiquity: install = Install()
Jul 4 01:15:59 ubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 284, in __init__
Jul 4 01:15:59 ubuntu ubiquity:
Jul 4 01:15:59 ubuntu ubiquity: self.select_ecryptfs()
Jul 4 01:15:59 ubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1313, in select_ecryptfs
Jul 4 01:15:59 ubuntu ubiquity:
Jul 4 01:15:59 ubuntu ubiquity: for homedir in os.listdir(home):
Jul 4 01:15:59 ubuntu ubiquity: OSError
Jul 4 01:15:59 ubuntu ubiquity: :
Jul 4 01:15:59 ubuntu ubiquity: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/target/home'
Jul 4 01:15:59 ubuntu ubiquity:
Jul 4 01:16:00 ubuntu ubiquity[3955]: debconffilter_done: Install (current: None)
Jul 4 01:16:00 ubuntu ubiquity[3955]: Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
Jul 4 01:16:00 ubuntu ubiquity[3955]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jul 4 01:16:00 ubuntu ubiquity[3955]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 227, in <module>
Jul 4 01:16:00 ubuntu ubiquity[3955]: main()
Jul 4 01:16:00 ubuntu ubiquity[3955]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 222, in main
Jul 4 01:16:00 ubuntu ubiquity[3955]: install(args[0])
Jul 4 01:16:00 ubuntu ubiquity[3955]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 68, in install
Jul 4 01:16:00 ubuntu ubiquity[3955]: ret = wizard.run()
Jul 4 01:16:00 ubuntu ubiquity[3955]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py", line 448, in run
Jul 4 01:16:00 ubuntu ubiquity[3955]: self.progress_loop()
Jul 4 01:16:00 ubuntu ubiquity[3955]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py", line 930, in progress_loop
Jul 4 01:16:00 ubuntu ubiquity[3955]: "/var/log/syslog" % ret)
Jul 4 01:16:00 ubuntu ubiquity[3955]: RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1; see /var/log/syslog
Jul 4 01:16:00 ubuntu ubiquity[3955]:

My /target looks like his:
cdrom etc lost+found media var

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 394338.