Installer crashed on "Configuring Apt"

[Tomas Gold]

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

Restarting the installer solved the problem - besides a couple of blank message boxes during the same time as it crashed for the first time the installer confirmed a complete and successful instalation at the end.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Could you attach /var/log/installer/syslog and /var/log/partman to this bug, please? (or /var/log/installer/partman if you've already rebooted into the completed installation)

[Tomas Gold (tomas-gold)]

syslog

(I'm dumb, I didn't keep the log from the first installation so this one is from the second)

[Tomas Gold (tomas-gold)]

Yes, I rebooted.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

As far as I can tell, you tried to start up the installer again while it was already running, it unmounted /target as the first thing it did, and then everything got very confused. We should have better locking to avoid this.

[Tomas Gold (tomas-gold)]

As far as I remember I restarted the installer AFTER getting the "Installer crashed" message.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The log's pretty clear here. I think this is essentially the same as bug 46569, which is now fixed in Edgy.