Installer crashed after manual partition to XFS

[Artti]

I got almost identical error messages from both Ubuntu and Kubuntu 6.06 installers:

raceback (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

In installer log I had these lines:

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:02:05 INFO chroot /target umount /sys
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/check-kernels']' for ubiquity.components.check_kernels.CheckKernels
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:02:06 INFO mount --bind /proc /target/proc
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:02:06 INFO mount --bind /dev /target/dev
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/grub-installer/grub-installer', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.grubinstaller.GrubInstaller
ubiquity: ['/usr/share/grub-installer/grub-installer', '/target'] exited with code 10
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:02:07 INFO umount -f /target/proc
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:02:07 INFO umount -f /target/dev
ubiquity: ['/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py'] exited with code 1
Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
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

If I remember correctly, XFS has some issues with GRUB.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. 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.