Installation crashed

[Jarno Suni]

Only odd thing I saw during installation before the crash was that after I had made manual partitioning and given mount points for partitions, and then returned to the paritition creating dialog, file systems of the partitions were unknown.

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

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

file requested

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

file requested

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

Accidentally attached wrong file before this.

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

file requested

BTW It is strange that I couldn't copy text by Ctrl+Insert from the original error message, but by right-clicking, and I couldn't paste by right click to the "Attachment" input field, but I could use Shift+Insert to paste there.

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

I get similar error again, even if I recreate partitions. For some reason, installer won't make XFS root partition; I have Ext3 /boot partition, swap and some XFS partitions, two hard drives.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

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".

The XFS problem you mention is bug 47848; see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperReleaseNotes/UbiquityKnownIssues.

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

About the XFS problem: Isn't there contradictious information about workaround. Should the /boot partition be XFS or not, if root is XFS? I chose root to be XFS and /boot to be ext3. Still installation created both ext3.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I made a mistake in http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperReleaseNotes/UbiquityKnownIssues, which I've since corrected; /boot should not be XFS.

Jarno, please file your problem as a new bug, attaching /var/log/installer/syslog, /var/log/syslog, and /var/log/partman using the "Add Attachment" link which becomes available after you file the bug.