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ubiquity package

ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_user()

Bug #407535 reported by taco on 2009-07-31

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #258603: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_user(). Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Tried once, failed, after that my USB Live Disk refused to boot. Recreated the USB Live Disk on another machine with the same ISO (redownloaded) and I get the same issue. Using a second HDD for /home.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
MediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" - Release i386 (20090420.1)
Package: ubiquity 1.12.12
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity --only
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', '--only']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_user()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UserGroups:

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taco (halstonc) wrote on 2009-07-31:

/var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman Edit (821.5 KiB, text/plain)
Casper.gz Edit (2.1 KiB, application/x-gzip)
Traceback.txt Edit (905 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityDebug.gz Edit (1.0 KiB, application/x-gzip)
UbiquityDm.gz Edit (705 bytes, application/x-gzip)
UbiquityPartman.gz Edit (10.7 KiB, application/x-gzip)
UbiquitySyslog.gz Edit (39.2 KiB, application/x-gzip)

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2009-07-31

tags:	removed: need-duplicate-check
visibility:	private → public

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taco (halstonc) wrote on 2009-08-01:

I got it installed. It appears the issue was with the secondary HDD being used as /home. I had it mounted in mtab before the installation as
/dev/sdb1 /media/home auto user,noexec 0 0
ubiquity failed on user creation. It was able to create the home folder on /dev/sdb1 but it was unable to go any further for whatever reason, might have had to do with the way I had the drive mounted (although it was unmounted at the time of installation). There was data on the drive (.tar.gz files with files to be restored) and the partition was being used as-is, not formatted.