installer crashes (i386; on Thinkpad T42P)

[Benedikt Heinen]

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 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

[Benedikt Heinen (ubuntu-soft)]

/var/log/installer/syslog (as requested in error text)

[Benedikt Heinen (ubuntu-soft)]

/var/log/syslog as requested in error text

[Benedikt Heinen (ubuntu-soft)]

/var/log/partman as requested in error message

[Benedikt Heinen (ubuntu-soft)]

after the error occured, I did go for a second attempt (same outcome); though second time in partition manager I only selected re-format, but did not re-partition.

[Benedikt Heinen (ubuntu-soft)]

The problem seems to lie with using xfs as the partition type; trying the same with ext3 works - with xfs it repeatedly crashes.

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

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. The fact that the partitioner doesn't warn you about this up-front is also bug 47848, and is fixed in dapper-updates.