Comment 20 for bug 49533

Just got the same error I believe:

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

I did not manually edit the partition table though. I was trying to install 6.06LTS on a system that had a 40 GB IDE drive of which about 12 GB was allocated to an NTFS partition for Windows 2000. I left the rest of the disk unpartitioned and when the Ubuntu installer got to the partitioning phase, I let it do what it wanted - seemingly to use the remaining space for an ext3 partition and a swap partition. Install went well for a while and then crashed at 81%.

Here's the partition info from fdisk:

Disk /dev/hda: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1507 12104946 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 * 1508 4852 26868712+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 4853 4998 1172745 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 4853 4998 1172713+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris