Installer Crashed

[David Wyly]

Wanted to install ubuntu, booted up the live CD and started an install with an unpartitioned, recently-reformated 300 GB SATA-150 HDD (Maxtor 6B300S0).

Had first 20GB unallocated (for future windows XP/x64 installs).

Then allocated 2GB as a linux-swap partition.

Then allocated 5GB as XFS partition for ubunto install.

Unallocated the rest (planned to use this as a FAT32 storage area in the future).

Set up the 2GB as swap and the 5GB as "/" for root...

It appears the setup has (mostly) completed before it crashed, and I can see the files when I dive into the 5GB partition. I do not know if, upon reboot, it will work correctly or not.

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

[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.