Keeps dying on grub-install attempt

[Phil V]

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

installer syslog:
Ubiquity 1.0.12
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:38:10 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
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:38:21 INFO Step_before = stepLanguage
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:38:21 INFO switched to page stepLocation
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:38:21 INFO Step_after = stepLocation
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:38:24 INFO Step_before = stepLocation
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:38:24 INFO switched to page stepKeyboardConf
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:38:24 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', u'pt-latin1', u'br-abnt2', u'br-latin1', u'ro', u'ru', u'sk-qwerty', u'slovene', u'sr-cy', u'se-latin1', u'trfu', u'trqu', u'ua']
ubiquity: Choices: [u'Belarusian', u'Bulgarian', u'Croatian', u'Czech', u'Swiss German', u'German', u'Danish', u'American English', u'British English', u'Dvorak', u'Estonian', u'Spanish', u'Latin American', u'Finnish', u'French', u'Belgian', u'Canadian French', u'Swiss French', u'Greek', u'Hebrew', u'Hungarian', u'Icelandic', u'Italian', u'Lithuanian', u'Latvian', u'Japanese', u'Macedonian', u'Norwegian', u'Dutch', u'Polish', u'Portuguese', u'Brazilian (ABNT2 layout)', u'Brazilian (EUA layout)', u'Romanian', u'Russian', u'Slovakian', u'Slovene', u'Serbian (Cyrillic)', u'Swedish', u'Turkish (F layout)', u'Turkish (Q layout)', u'Ukrainian']
ubiquity: console-keymaps-at/keymap db: us
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:38:27 INFO Step_before = stepKeyboardConf
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:38:27 INFO switched to page stepUserInfo
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:38:27 INFO Step_after = stepUserInfo
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/user-setup/user-setup-ask', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.usersetup.UserSetup
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^passwd/user-fullname$, ^passwd/username$, ^passwd/user-password$, ^passwd/user-password-again$, ERROR
ON STATE: 1
ON STATE: 2
ON STATE: 3
ON STATE: 4
ON STATE: 5
ON STATE: 6
ON STATE: 7
ON STATE: 8
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:38:40 INFO Step_before = stepUserInfo
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:38:40 INFO switched to page stepPartDisk
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:38:40 INFO Step_after = stepPartDisk
ubiquity: Starting up '/bin/partman' for ubiquity.components.partman.Partman
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^partman-auto/select_disk$, ^partman-auto/.*automatically_partition$, ^partman-partitioning/new_size$, ^partman/choose_partition$, ^partman/confirm.*, type:boolean, ERROR, PROGRESS
unsupported
kernelmodules_basicfilesystems
kernelmodules_ext3
kernelmodules_jfs
kernelmodules_reiserfs
kernelmodules_xfs
umount_target
parted
dump
update_partitions
filesystems_detected
auto_mountpoints
autouse_swap
backup
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:38:50 INFO switched to page stepPartAuto
ubiquity: /bin/partman exited with code 10
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:38:59 INFO Step_before = stepPartAuto
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:38:59 INFO gparted_loop()
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:38:59 INFO Disabling swap on /dev/hda5
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:39:00 INFO switched to page stepPartAdvanced
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:39:00 INFO Step_after = stepPartAdvanced
Error reading inode 8740.
Error reading inode 8744.
Error reading inode 8766.
Error reading inode 9931.
Error reading inode 9935.
Error reading inode 12949.
Error reading inode 12951.
Error reading inode 13154.
Error reading inode 13155.
Error reading inode 13201.
Error reading inode 13202.
Error reading inode 13232.
Error reading inode 13412.
Error reading inode 13512.
Error reading inode 15087.
Error reading inode 15104.
Error reading inode 15483.
Error reading inode 15484.
Error reading inode 15933.
Error reading inode 15934.
Error reading inode 16004.
Error reading inode 16005.
Error reading inode 16050.
Error reading inode 16051.
Error reading inode 16087.
Error reading inode 16088.
Error reading inode 16130.
Error reading inode 16132.
Error reading inode 16306.
Error reading inode 16307.
Error reading inode 16835.
Error reading inode 16836.
Error reading inode 16837.
Error reading inode 16838.
Error reading inode 16839.
Error reading inode 16840.
Error reading inode 16842.
Error reading inode 16979.
Error reading inode 16980.
Error reading inode 18574.
Error reading inode 18575.
Error reading inode 19923.
Error reading inode 20679.
Error reading inode 21116.
Error reading inode 21553.
Error reading inode 25258.
Error reading inode 25259.
Error reading inode 26859.
Error reading inode 26862.
Error reading inode 27088.
Error reading inode 28514.
Error reading inode 30645.
Error reading inode 31265.
Error reading inode 31266.
Error reading inode 34710.
Error reading inode 34732.
Error reading inode 34733.
Error reading inode 34734.
Error reading inode 34740.
Error reading inode 34742.
Error reading inode 34830.
Error reading inode 34831.
Error reading inode 36258.
Error reading inode 36261.
Error reading inode 36611.
Error reading inode 36612.
Warning: Unable to open /dev/hdc read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/hdc has been opened read-only.
Error: Unable to open /dev/hdc - unrecognised disk label.
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:39:21 INFO Step_before = stepPartAdvanced
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:39:24 INFO switched to page stepPartMountpoints
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:39:24 INFO Step_after = stepPartMountpoints
Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 696, in on_next_clicked
    gtk.main_quit()
RuntimeError: called outside of a mainloop

Ubiquity 1.0.12
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:39:33 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
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:39:38 INFO Step_before = stepLanguage
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:39:38 INFO switched to page stepLocation
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:39:38 INFO Step_after = stepLocation
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:39:41 INFO Step_before = stepLocation
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:39:41 INFO switched to page stepKeyboardConf
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:39:41 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', u'pt-latin1', u'br-abnt2', u'br-latin1', u'ro', u'ru', u'sk-qwerty', u'slovene', u'sr-cy', u'se-latin1', u'trfu', u'trqu', u'ua']
ubiquity: Choices: [u'Belarusian', u'Bulgarian', u'Croatian', u'Czech', u'Swiss German', u'German', u'Danish', u'American English', u'British English', u'Dvorak', u'Estonian', u'Spanish', u'Latin American', u'Finnish', u'French', u'Belgian', u'Canadian French', u'Swiss French', u'Greek', u'Hebrew', u'Hungarian', u'Icelandic', u'Italian', u'Lithuanian', u'Latvian', u'Japanese', u'Macedonian', u'Norwegian', u'Dutch', u'Polish', u'Portuguese', u'Brazilian (ABNT2 layout)', u'Brazilian (EUA layout)', u'Romanian', u'Russian', u'Slovakian', u'Slovene', u'Serbian (Cyrillic)', u'Swedish', u'Turkish (F layout)', u'Turkish (Q layout)', u'Ukrainian']
ubiquity: console-keymaps-at/keymap db: us
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:39:42 INFO Step_before = stepKeyboardConf
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:39:42 INFO switched to page stepUserInfo
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:39:42 INFO Step_after = stepUserInfo
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/user-setup/user-setup-ask', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.usersetup.UserSetup
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^passwd/user-fullname$, ^passwd/username$, ^passwd/user-password$, ^passwd/user-password-again$, ERROR
ON STATE: 1
ON STATE: 2
ON STATE: 3
ON STATE: 4
ON STATE: 5
ON STATE: 6
ON STATE: 7
ON STATE: 8
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:39:53 INFO Step_before = stepUserInfo
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:39:53 INFO switched to page stepPartDisk
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:39:53 INFO Step_after = stepPartDisk
ubiquity: Starting up '/bin/partman' for ubiquity.components.partman.Partman
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^partman-auto/select_disk$, ^partman-auto/.*automatically_partition$, ^partman-partitioning/new_size$, ^partman/choose_partition$, ^partman/confirm.*, type:boolean, ERROR, PROGRESS
unsupported
kernelmodules_basicfilesystems
kernelmodules_ext3
kernelmodules_jfs
kernelmodules_reiserfs
kernelmodules_xfs
umount_target
parted
dump
update_partitions
filesystems_detected
auto_mountpoints
autouse_swap
backup
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:40:02 INFO switched to page stepPartAuto
ubiquity: /bin/partman exited with code 10
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:40:15 INFO Step_before = stepPartAuto
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:40:15 INFO gparted_loop()
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:40:15 INFO switched to page stepPartAdvanced
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:40:15 INFO Step_after = stepPartAdvanced
Error reading inode 8740.
Error reading inode 8744.
Error reading inode 8766.
Error reading inode 9931.
Error reading inode 9935.
Error reading inode 12949.
Error reading inode 12951.
Error reading inode 13154.
Error reading inode 13155.
Error reading inode 13201.
Error reading inode 13202.
Error reading inode 13232.
Error reading inode 13412.
Error reading inode 13512.
Error reading inode 15087.
Error reading inode 15104.
Error reading inode 15483.
Error reading inode 15484.
Error reading inode 15933.
Error reading inode 15934.
Error reading inode 16004.
Error reading inode 16005.
Error reading inode 16050.
Error reading inode 16051.
Error reading inode 16087.
Error reading inode 16088.
Error reading inode 16130.
Error reading inode 16132.
Error reading inode 16306.
Error reading inode 16307.
Error reading inode 16835.
Error reading inode 16836.
Error reading inode 16837.
Error reading inode 16838.
Error reading inode 16839.
Error reading inode 16840.
Error reading inode 16842.
Error reading inode 16979.
Error reading inode 16980.
Error reading inode 18574.
Error reading inode 18575.
Error reading inode 19923.
Error reading inode 20679.
Error reading inode 21116.
Error reading inode 21553.
Error reading inode 25258.
Error reading inode 25259.
Error reading inode 26859.
Error reading inode 26862.
Error reading inode 27088.
Error reading inode 28514.
Error reading inode 30645.
Error reading inode 31265.
Error reading inode 31266.
Error reading inode 34710.
Error reading inode 34732.
Error reading inode 34733.
Error reading inode 34734.
Error reading inode 34740.
Error reading inode 34742.
Error reading inode 34830.
Error reading inode 34831.
Error reading inode 36258.
Error reading inode 36261.
Error reading inode 36611.
Error reading inode 36612.
Warning: Unable to open /dev/hdc read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/hdc has been opened read-only.
Error: Unable to open /dev/hdc - unrecognised disk label.
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:40:21 INFO Step_before = stepPartAdvanced
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:40:22 INFO switched to page stepPartMountpoints
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:40:22 INFO Step_after = stepPartMountpoints
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:40:50 INFO Step_before = stepPartMountpoints
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:40:50 INFO mountpoints: {'/dev/hda5': ('swap', True, None), '/dev/hda7': ('/data', True, None), '/dev/hda6': ('/', True, None)}
ubiquity: Starting up '/bin/partman' for ubiquity.components.partman_commit.PartmanCommit
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^partman/choose_partition$, ^partman/confirm.*, type:boolean, ERROR, PROGRESS
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/partman': File exists
unsupported
kernelmodules_basicfilesystems
kernelmodules_ext3
kernelmodules_jfs
kernelmodules_reiserfs
kernelmodules_xfs
umount_target
parted
dump
update_partitions
filesystems_detected
auto_mountpoints
autouse_swap
backup
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:40:58 INFO switched to page stepReady
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/summary']' for ubiquity.components.summary.Summary
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^ubiquity/summary$
swapon: /dev/hda5: Device or resource busy
swapon: /dev/hda5: Device or resource busy
swapon: /dev/hda5: Device or resource busy
swapon: /dev/hda5: Device or resource busy
umount /target/
umount /target/data
swapoff /dev/hda5
chroot: cannot run command `apt-get': No such file or directory
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:41:14 INFO progress_loop()
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py']' for ubiquity.components.install.Install
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^.*/apt-install-failed$, CAPB, ERROR, PROGRESS
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:17: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet
  warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)
cat: /var/lib/acpi-support/system-manufacturer: No such file or directory
cat: /var/lib/acpi-support/system-product-name: No such file or directory
cat: /var/lib/acpi-support/system-version: No such file or directory
cat: /var/lib/acpi-support/bios-version: No such file or directory
ubiquity: Starting up '['sh', '-c', '/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/post-base-installer && /usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/prebaseconfig']' for ubiquity.components.language_apply.LanguageApply
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Skipping locales, it is already installed and upgrade is not set.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
E: Couldn't find package localization-config
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Skipping console-tools, it is already installed and upgrade is not set.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/apt-setup']' for ubiquity.components.apt_setup.AptSetup
/usr/lib/ubiquity/apt-setup/generators/01setup: line 7: /target/etc/apt/sources.list: No such file or directory
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release [34.8kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages [619kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Packages [4571B]
Fetched 659kB in 5s (118kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Sources [255kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Sources [1478B]
Fetched 257kB in 2s (126kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release [30.9kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages [37.7kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Packages [14B]
Fetched 68.8kB in 1s (54.0kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Sources [22.1kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Sources [14B]
Fetched 22.1kB in 1s (19.6kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release [30.9kB]
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages [25.1kB]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages [4253B]
Fetched 60.5kB in 1s (52.7kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages
Fetched 1B in 0s (2B/s)
Reading package lists...
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Sources [6227B]
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Sources [974B]
Fetched 7202B in 0s (9904B/s)
Reading package lists...
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:47:18 INFO keeping language packs for: en
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/tzsetup/prebaseconfig']' for ubiquity.components.timezone_apply.TimezoneApply
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/clock-setup']' for ubiquity.components.clock_setup.ClockSetup
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/kbd-chooser/prebaseconfig']' for ubiquity.components.kbd_chooser_apply.KbdChooserApply
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/user-setup/user-setup-apply', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.usersetup_apply.UserSetupApply
ubiquity: Starting up '['/bin/hw-detect']' for ubiquity.components.hw_detect.HwDetect
open_sock(): Permission denied
find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched.
find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched.
find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched.
find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Skipping discover1, it is already installed and upgrade is not set.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 139 not upgraded.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Skipping udev, it is already installed and upgrade is not set.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 139 not upgraded.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Skipping usbutils, it is already installed and upgrade is not set.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 139 not upgraded.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Skipping acpi, it is already installed and upgrade is not set.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 139 not upgraded.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Skipping acpid, it is already installed and upgrade is not set.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 139 not upgraded.
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:47:59 INFO chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:47:59 INFO chroot /target mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys
Not touching initrd symlinks since we are being reinstalled (2.6.15-23.39)
Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated (2.6.15-23.39)
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:48:27 INFO chroot /target dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive linux-image-2.6.15-23-386
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:48:29 INFO chroot /target dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-23-386
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:48:30 INFO chroot /target umount /proc
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:48:30 INFO chroot /target umount /sys
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/check-kernels']' for ubiquity.components.check_kernels.CheckKernels
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:48:33 INFO mount --bind /proc /target/proc
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:48:33 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
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:48:34 INFO umount -f /target/proc
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:48:34 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

[andi5 (andi5)]

I think I have seen the same: the installer repeatedly crashes at 95% :(

One question: What file system is /boot on? I was able to install dapper finally, after having realized that maybe there was just an unfetched warning about grub having problems with xfs file systems.

If you have the same problem: Make a small /boot partition with an ext file system.

[Wotan (gauleng)]

I tried to install with jfs and xfs, and with xfs installation always fails.

[Phil V (thephilv)]

I was trying and xfs partition. andi5 says that he had the same
problem and that it was b/c of the XFS filesystem. Apparently his
worked with a jfs install. I installed using text mode and got it up
and running. The screen went blank for a bit but ipressed enter after
the HDD indicator stopped and it rebooted and now I am in. Thanks for
your help

On 6/24/06, andi5 <email address hidden> wrote:
> I think I have seen the same: the installer repeatedly crashes at 95% :(
>
> One question: What file system is /boot on? I was able to install dapper
> finally, after having realized that maybe there was just an unfetched
> warning about grub having problems with xfs file systems.
>
> If you have the same problem: Make a small /boot partition with an ext
> file system.
>
> --
> Keeps dying on grub-install attempt
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/50824
>

[Phil V (thephilv)]

I was trying and xfs partition. I installed using text mode and got it
up and running. The screen went blank for a bit but ipressed enter
after the HDD indicator stopped and it rebooted and now I am in.
Thanks for your help. If i ever need to reinstall i'll use jfs
instead. Thanks again

On 6/24/06, Wotan <email address hidden> wrote:
> I tried to install with jfs and xfs, and with xfs installation always
> fails.
>
> --
> Keeps dying on grub-install attempt
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/50824
>

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

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. Bug 47848 is filed to note that the partitioner should warn you about this up-front.

[towsonu2003 (towsonu2003)]

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