installer exits abruptly when starting actual installation

[Oliver Gerlich]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

After answering all questions in installer, the "wizard" window disappeared; then a new window (apparently for displaying installation progress) came up for split second, then disappeared, and ubiquity process exited with exit code 125. This happened when starting ubiquity from desktop icon as well as when starting it from terminal.

System is booted from Karmic Beta iso, using Netboot (PXE). Hardware is VIA Epia board. I tried to install to a USB flash drive.

Ubiquity package is now updated to latest version, but first I tried with original version, and neither one worked.

What info do you need? Where can I find debug infos about what happens?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 7 21:34:34 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Beta i386 (20090929.2)
Package: ubiquity 1.99.30
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

[florin (dfev77)]

Same stuff here.

[Evan (ev)]

Can anyone experiencing this bug try the following and report back:

Remove the ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu package, then attempt an install.

If the install is successful, please boot the live CD a second time so you get the slideshow package back. Go into Preferences -> Software Sources -> Other Software and add "ppa:evand/ppa", then let it reload your configuration. Install libwebkit-1.0-2, then make sure you have the correct version from my ppa. The output of `dpkg -s libwebkit-1.0-2 | grep Version` should be 1.1.15.2-1~evand. Try an install again.

Please let me know via this bug report whether removing the slideshow package fixed the bug, and if so, whether adding the version of webkit from my ppa also fixed the bug.

Thanks!

[Oliver Gerlich (ogerlich)]

Uninstalling ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu has helped for me - thanks a lot!

I'll reboot and try the PPA package when this installation is finished.

[Oliver Gerlich (ogerlich)]

Yup, upgrading libwebkit-1.0-2 to 1.1.15.2-1~evand from your PPA fixed it as well - installation worked fine, and it displayed the slideshow.

[Evan (ev)]

Thanks for your help. I'm marking this as fixed.