Ubuntu
ubiquity package

Installer crash

Bug #53482 reported by Ron Thomas on 2006-07-19

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #47046: breaks if system partitions are not reformatted. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Per request by Carthick Sharma, new bug number created. This is similar to bug 51776.
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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/kde-ui.py", line 311, in run
     self.process_step()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 734, in process_step
     self.mountpoints_to_summary()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 1047, in mountpoints_to_summary
     self.progress_loop()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 524, 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

Revision history for this message

Ron Thomas (rthomas-hypercom) wrote on 2006-07-19:

installer-syslog, partman, syslog in a gzipped tar Edit (18.2 KiB, application/x-tar)

log files requested

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Carthik Sharma (carthik) wrote on 2006-07-19:

From /var/log/installer/syslog :

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:03:14 INFO mountpoints: {'/dev/hda5': ('swap', True, None), '/dev/hda6': ('/tmp', False, None), '/dev/hda1': ('/boot', False, None), '/dev/hda2': ('/', False, None)}
....
File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 385, in copy_all
os.mknod(targetpath, stat.S_IFCHR | mode, st.st_rdev)
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists
ubiquity: ['/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py'] exited with code 1

Thanks for the logs. At present, you must reformat system partitions (e.g. /, /boot, /usr, or /var) during installation; bug 47046 is filed to note that the partitioner should warn you about this up-front. If you are upgrading an existing installation, then please see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperUpgrades rather than using this installer.