Ubuntu
ubiquity package

Xubuntu installer crashed

Bug #48360 reported by koayyijie on 2006-06-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #47859: crashes if some packages on live fs are unconfigured. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	New	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

When the xubuntu installer(6.06 Dapper Drake) nearly finishes, the installer will crash with a message.

We're sorry; the installer crashed. Please file a bug report at https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+filebug and a developer will attend to the problem as soon as possible. To help the developers understand what went wrong, include the following detail in your bug report, and attach the files /var/log/installer/syslog, /var/log/syslog, and /var/log/partman:

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 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; see "
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1; see /var/log/installer/syslog and /var/log/syslog

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koayyijie (koayyijie) wrote on 2006-06-04: /var/log/partman

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koayyijie (koayyijie) wrote on 2006-06-04: /var/log/syslog

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koayyijie (koayyijie) wrote on 2006-06-04: /var/log/installer/syslog

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2006-06-05:

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 47859, and can be worked around by not choosing to install NTP support while running the installer. It can be installed after rebooting into the newly-installed system by right-clicking on the date/time applet and selecting "Adjust Date & Time".