Installer crashed: "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 130

[Anand]

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

[Anand (anand2039)]

Installing Ubuntu 6.06 over existing Ubuntu 6.06 partition with reformat.

/var/log/installer/syslog:

Ubiquity 1.0.12
Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:50:39 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
ubiquity: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/localechooser'] exited with code 10
debconf: DbDriver "targetdb": could not open /target/var/cache/debconf/config.dat
Ubiquity 1.0.12
Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:51:32 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
Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:51:42 INFO Step_before = stepLanguage
Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:51:44 INFO switched to page stepLocation
Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:51:44 INFO Step_after = stepLocation
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$
Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:51:58 INFO Step_before = stepLocation
Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:51:58 INFO switched to page stepKeyboardConf
Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:51:58 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',...

[Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez)]

@Colin

I think this type of error is not listed in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUbiquity

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

manu: Not everything is. After you run off the end of DebuggingUbiquity, you need to apply actual knowledge and regular debugging skills and stuff ;-)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. You appear to have tried to start up two copies of the installer at once, perhaps by double-clicking on the "Install" icon by accident while the summary page was being displayed. This is also bug 46569.

[Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez)]

@Colin

what is the characteristic of this log that denotes that it is bug 46569 (two instances of the installer) ? I really don't see it. Sorry.

[Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez)]

@Colin

forget the question, now I see it. Logs in comments is horrible...

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Look for "Ubiquity 1.0.12" appearing multiple times within a single run of the installer (you may get multiple runs of the installer in a single log file, but they should be consecutive, not interleaved) and a complaint from debconf that config.dat is locked by another process.

[Anand (anand2039)]

I was able to install Ubuntu soon after submitting this error. I wouldn't have normally filed a bug so quickly without trying to work around it. But since the error message asked to file a bug, I thought it would be helpful to do so.

I think the problem was, I had accidentally set the partition type to ext2. At least, that is what was peculiar about the installation attempt. It installed fine when I choose ext3.

Sorry about the logs in the comments. I couldn't figure out how to attach a log file to the bug.