installer crash

[Ben Mathews]

Installing ubuntu 5.04 rc1 on a dell dimension e310

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 120, in ?
    install(sys.argv[1])
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 54, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 264, in run
    self.progress_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 538, in progress_loop
    raise RuntimeError, "Install failed with exit code %s" % ret
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1

[Ben Mathews (bmathews)]

/var/log/partman

[Ben Mathews (bmathews)]

/var/log/installer/syslog

[Eamonn Sullivan (eamonn-sullivan)]

I got the exact same problem. Happened twice in a row. I am installing a fresh copy on a 160GB SATA disk. It appears to happen right after or during download of language packs.

[Eamonn Sullivan (eamonn-sullivan)]

My syslog.

[Eamonn Sullivan (eamonn-sullivan)]

Ubiquity partition log

[Eamonn Sullivan (eamonn-sullivan)]

Appears to be a duplicate of #46764.

[Eamonn Sullivan (eamonn-sullivan)]

I can get further in the installation by skipping the language pack (I had a split second to hit a "Skip" button at that stage), but then I get the same traceback at 99% completed.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This is in fact bug 46743, not bug 46764; please let me deal with marking ubiquity bugs as duplicates, as it is not always obvious. (In this particular case it requires careful reading of the syslog, not just the traceback.)

Anyway, it's fixed in current daily builds. As a workaround, don't choose to install NTP support during the installation.