Ubuntu
ubiquity package

Error at the end of the Kubuntu install

Bug #54886 reported by Kevin on 2006-08-02

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #47848: should warn at partitioning stage if /boot is on XFS. Edit Remove

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

Bug Description

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 309, in run
    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

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Kevin (kevin-matson) wrote on 2006-08-02:

/var/log/installer/syslog Edit (38.1 KiB, text/plain)

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Kevin (kevin-matson) wrote on 2006-08-02:

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Kevin (kevin-matson) wrote on 2006-08-02:

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2006-08-02:

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.