ubiquity crashes

[Rene Bartosh]

Install with manual partitioning, a XFS root and a swap partition, results in the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 130, in ?
    install(sys.argv[1])
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 55, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 266, in run
    self.process_step()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 741, in process_step
    self.mountpoints_to_summary()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 1029, in mountpoints_to_summary
    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; see "
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1; see /var/log/installer/syslog and /var/log/syslog

[Rene Bartosh (kirjava)]

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /var/log/installer/syslog
Ubiquity 1.0.12
Mon, 29 May 2006 13:39:57 INFO switched to page stepLanguage
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/localechooser']' for ubiquity.components.language.Language
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^languagechooser/language-name
Mon, 29 May 2006 13:40:46 INFO Step_before = stepLanguage
Mon, 29 May 2006 13:40:59 INFO switched to page stepLocation
Mon, 29 May 2006 13:41:00 INFO Step_after = stepLocation
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$

(time-admin:6767): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

(time-admin:6767): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_main_quit: assertion `main_loops != NULL' failed
Mon, 29 May 2006 13:42:44 INFO Step_before = stepLocation
Mon, 29 May 2006 13:42:44 INFO switched to page stepKeyboardConf
Mon, 29 May 2006 13:42:44 INFO Step_after = stepKeyboardConf
ubiquity: kbd-chooser prepare
ubiquity: Starting up '['/bin/sh', '-c', '. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule; exec /usr/lib/ubiquity/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser']' for ubiquity.components.kbd_chooser.KbdChooser
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^kbd-chooser/method$, ^console-keymaps.*/keymap$, ERROR
ubiquity: apply_keyboard: us
ubiquity: apply_keyboard: layout us, model pc104
ubiquity: Display map: {u'Swedish': u'se-latin1', u'Icelandic': u'is-latin1', u'Estonian': u'et', u'Romanian': u'ro', u'Italian': u'it', u'Latin American': u'la-latin1', u'Dutch': u'nl', u'Brazilian (EUA layout)': u'br-latin1', u'Belgian': u'be2-latin1', u'Danish': u'dk-latin1', u'Bulgarian': u'bg', u'Turkish (F layout)': u'trfu', u'Hungarian': u'hu', u'Macedonian': u'mk', u'Lithuanian': u'lt', u'French': u'fr-latin9', u'Norwegian': u'no-latin1', u'Slovakian': u'sk-qwerty', u'Russian': u'ru', u'Dvorak': u'dvorak', u'Slovene': u'slovene', u'Finnish': u'fi-latin1', u'British English': u'uk', u'Spanish': u'es', u'Greek': u'gr', u'Canadian French': u'cf', u'Latvian': u'lv-latin4', u'American English': u'us', u'Croatian': u'croat', u'Portuguese': u'pt-latin1', u'Czech': u'cz-lat2', u'Ukrainian': u'ua', u'Japanese': u'jp106', u'Belarusian': u'by', u'Turkish (Q layout)': u'trqu', u'German': u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'Hebrew': u'hebrew', u'Polish': u'pl', u'Brazilian (ABNT2 layout)': u'br-abnt2', u'Swiss French': u'fr_CH-latin1', u'Swiss German': u'sg-latin1', u'Serbian (Cyrillic)': u'sr-cy'}
ubiquity: Untranslated choices: [u'by', u'bg', u'croat', u'cz-lat2', u'sg-latin1', u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'dk-latin1', u'us', u'uk', u'dvorak', u'et', u'es', u'la-latin1', u'fi-latin1', u'fr-latin9', u'be2-latin1', u'cf', u'fr_CH-latin1', u'gr', u'hebrew', u'hu', u'is-latin1', u'it', u'lt', u'lv-latin4', u'jp106', u'mk', u'no-latin1', u'nl', u'pl', u'pt-latin1', u'br-abnt2', u'br-latin1', u'ro', u'ru', u'sk-qwerty', u'slovene', u'sr-cy', u'se-latin1', u'trfu', u'trqu', u'ua']
ubiquity: Choices: [u'Belarusian', u'Bulgarian', u'Croatian',...

[Rene Bartosh (kirjava)]

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /var/log/syslog
May 29 13:35:03 ubuntu syslogd 1.4.1#17ubuntu7: restart.
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.15-23-386
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: Loaded 23018 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.15-23-386.
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.15.
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled.
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] Linux version 2.6.15-23-386 (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1 PREEMPT Tue May 23 13:49:40 UTC 2006
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000bf00000 (usable)
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] 191MB LOWMEM available.
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] On node 0 totalpages: 48896
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] Normal zone: 44800 pages, LIFO batch:7
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] DMI 2.2 present.
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 0bf00000:f3c00000)
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] Built 1 zonelists
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/ram rw quiet splash --
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] Local APIC disabled by BIOS (or by default) -- you can enable it with "lapic"
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (0117f000)
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] Initializing CPU#0
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 16384 bytes)
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [ 0.000000] Detected 668.249 MHz processor.
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [ 59.964858] Using tsc for high-res timesource
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [ 59.967210] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [ 59.968077] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [ 59.968928] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
May 29 13:35:04 ubuntu kernel: [ 59.997630] Memory: 183220k/19...

[Rene Bartosh (kirjava)]

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /var/log/partman
/bin/partman: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/01unsupported: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: *******************************************************
parted_server: ======= Starting the server
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 1
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=hda /dev/hda
parted_server: Read command: OPEN
parted_server: command_open()
parted_server: Request to open =dev=hda
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Note =dev=hda as unchanged
parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 2
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=hdb /dev/hdb
parted_server: Read command: OPEN
parted_server: command_open()
parted_server: Request to open =dev=hdb
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Note =dev=hdb as unchanged
parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 3
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/35dump: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/35dump: IN: DUMP =dev=hda
parted_server: Read command: DUMP
parted_server: command_dump()
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 4
parted_server: Opening infifo
Device: yes
Model: Maxtor 90871U2
Path: /dev/hda
Sector size: 512
Sectors: 16514064
Sectors/track: 63
Heads: 255
Cylinders: 1027
Partition table: yes
Type: msdos
Partitions: # id length type fs path name
(0,0,0) (0,0,62) -1 0-32255 32256 primary label /dev/hda-1
(0,1,0) (981,254,62) 1 32256-8077224959 8077192704 primary ext3 /dev/hda1
(982,0,0) (1026,254,62) 2 8077224960-8447362559 370137600 primary extended /dev/hda2
(982,0,0) (982,0,62) -1 8077224960-8077257215 32256 logical label /dev/hda-1
(982,1,0) (1026,254,62) 5 8077257216-8447362559 370105344 logical linux-swap /dev/hda5
(1027,0,0) (1027,242,62) -1 8447362560-8455200767 7838208 primary label /dev/hda-1
Dump finished.
/lib/partman/init.d/35dump: IN: DUMP =dev=hdb
parted_server: Read command: DUMP
parted_server: command_dump()
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 5
parted_server: Opening infifo
Device: yes
Model: ST310211A
Path: /dev/hdb
Sector size: 512
Sectors: 19541089
Sectors/track: 63
Heads: 255
Cylinders: 1216
Partition table: yes
Type: msdos
Partitions: # id length type fs path name
(0,0,0) (0,0,62) -1 0-32255 32256 primary label /dev/hdb-1
(0,1,0) (652,254,62) 1 32256-5371107839 5371075584 primary ntfs /dev/hdb1
(653,0,0) (1215,254,62) 2 5371107840-10001940479 4630832640 primary fat32 /dev/hdb2
(1216,0,0) (1216,96,0) -1 10001940480-10005037567 3097088 primary label /dev/hdb-1
Dump finished.
/lib/partman/init.d/70update_partitions: ***************************************...

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. Due to some reliability problems with GRUB and XFS, you need to use a non-XFS root filesystem or create a non-XFS /boot filesystem. Bug 47848 is filed to note that the partitioner should warn you about this up-front.