Installer crashes on step 6 of 7

[Ben Hastings]

Kubuntu 6.06 live-cd installation failed because the installer closed itself after entering user data. There are no error messages and I can't locate a log file for the install script otherwise I'd provide more data.

The system is an HP ze4145 laptop (AMD 1800+, 512MB RAM, Radeon IGP320M, 40G hard drive, DVD/CD-RW combo drive).

Potential workaround: I've downloaded the "install" cd and will try that tonight.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Please run 'ESPRESSO_DEBUG=1 sudo espresso' and attach /var/log/installer/espresso to this bug. Make sure to use a throwaway password, as in debug mode the password will appear in the log file.

You may also like to follow the instructions in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperBeta/PartitionTableCorruption before starting the installer, to avoid damage to your system.

[Ben Hastings (ben-hastings)]

Recreated on another system with the livecd (plus the patch mentioned above).

I see no way of "attaching" the log data, so I will paste it inline (what appears to be the relevant data from the 1,432 lines) below:

ON STATE: 8
  watch_debconf_fd_helper_read (self, source): 16 30
  debconffilter_done (self, dbfilter): 16
end mainloop
process_step
  process_step()
  step_name(step_index) 4
Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:28:34 INFO Step_before = stepUserInfo
  on_steps_switch_page(title): 4 5
  set_current_page(self, current):
  step_name(step_index) 5
  step_name(step_index) 4
  step_name(step_index) 5
Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:28:34 INFO Step_after = stepPartDisk
end of while
QSocketNotifier: invalid socket 16 and type 'Read', disabling...
QSocketNotifier: invalid socket 16 and type 'Write', disabling...
QSocketNotifier: invalid socket 16 and type 'Exception', disabling...
  step_name(step_index) 5
checking if dbfilter in not None
dbfilter.start
debconf (developer): <-- VERSION 2
debconf (developer): --> 0 2.0
debconf (developer): <-- CAPB
debconf (developer): --> 0 multiselect escape
espresso: Starting up '/bin/partman' for espresso.components.partman.Partman
espresso: Watching for question patterns ^partman-auto/disk$, ^partman-auto/.*automatically_partition$, ^partman-partitioning/new_size$, ^partman/choose_partition$, ^partman/confirm.*, ERROR, PROGRESS
  watch_debconf_fd (self, from_debconf, process_input): 16 <bound method Partman.process_input of <espresso.components.partman.Partman object at 0xb420cf4c>>
mainloop
  watch_debconf_fd_helper_read (self, source): 16 1
debconf (filter): <-- CAPB backup
debconf (developer): <-- CAPB backup
debconf (developer): --> 0 multiselect escape
  watch_debconf_fd_helper_read (self, source): 16 2
debconf (filter): <-- METAGET partman/text/number description
debconf (developer): <-- METAGET partman/text/number description
debconf (developer): --> 0 #%s
  watch_debconf_fd_helper_read (self, source): 16 3
debconf (filter): <-- PROGRESS START 0 14 partman/progress/init/title
debconf (filter): widget found for partman/progress/init/title
debconf (developer): <-- METAGET partman/progress/init/title description
debconf (developer): --> 0 Starting up the partitioner
  debconf_progress_start (self, progress_min, progress_max, progress_title) 0 14
KCrash: Application 'installer' crashing...
Unable to start Dr. Konqi
unsupported

[tapir (launchpad-anthonylong)]

I'm also having this problem. My machine is a HP Vectra VL420, 512mb RAM, GeForce FX5500 graphics card, DVD drive, 200gb hard drive. I'm also using Kubuntu 6.06 beta.

downloading the patch, then running ESPRESSO_DEBUG=1 kdesu espresso kde-ui gives the following output in /var/log/installer/espresso:

X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
  Major opcode: 144
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
  Major opcode: 144
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
mkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root
/usr/bin/iceauth: creating new authority file /root/.ICEauthority
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
  Major opcode: 144
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
  Major opcode: 144
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
kbuildsycoca running...
Invalid entry (missing '=') at /tmp/kde-root/kconf_updateU1Vmha.tmp:1
  TimezoneMap.__init__(self, frontend):
init end
  run()
  show_intro()
  set_current_page(self, current):
  step_name(step_index) 0
  step_name(step_index) 0
no filter
checking if dbfilter in not None
mainloop
  on_cancel_clicked(self, widget):
KCrash: Application 'installer' crashing...
Unable to start Dr. Konqi
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/espresso", line 96, in ?
    install()
  File "/usr/bin/espresso", line 35, in install
    ui = getattr(mod, type)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'gtkui'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/espresso", line 96, in ?
    install()
  File "/usr/bin/espresso", line 35, in install
    ui = getattr(mod, type)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'gtkui'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/espresso", line 96, in ?
    install()
  File "/usr/bin/espresso", line 35, in install
    ui = getattr(mod, type)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'gtkui'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/espresso", line 96, in ?
    install()
  File "/usr/bin/espresso", line 35, in install
    ui = getattr(mod, type)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'gtkui'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/espresso", line 96, in ?
    install()
  File "/usr/bin/espresso", line 35, in install
    ui = getattr(mod, type)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'gtkui'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/espresso", line 96, in ?
    install()
  File "/usr/bin/espresso", line 35, in install
    ui = getattr(mod, type)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'gtkui'
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
  Major opcode: 144
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
  Major opcode: 144
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
mkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root
X Error: BadDevice...

[Luka Renko (lure)]

Closing the bug - I had the same problem and it was fixed in Beta2.
Feel free to reopen if you can still reproduce the problem with Beta2 or newer.

[Tom (trw4016)]

Hi guys, I am comming from Windows and do not know, neither would like to know, how to fix the problem out of the graphic environment, terminal line commands. Does this makes me un fit to use Ubuntu?

Thanks
Tom