KDE installer error: RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code

[Simon Law]

In bug 49088, Matt Blissett wrote:

I have the same, the installer crashed whilst installing the bootloader, which hasn't installed correctly. Is this because GRUB doesn't work if /boot/grub/... can't be accessed by the BIOS? I.e. my / partition is 40GB after the start of the disk (Windows got there first). I've never had GRUB working in this situation, but Lilo does (I think all of LILO fits in the MBR?)

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

http://librarian.launchpad.net/3667556/syslog
http://librarian.launchpad.net/3667557/syslog
http://librarian.launchpad.net/3667560/partman

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

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.