Installer Crash when trying to clean install on a hard drive

[jlhuge]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I'm trying to switch to Ubuntu from Fedora (looking for lighterweight and less cludge), however, every time I run the installer, it crashes on me. Usually, it just freezes, but I've finally gotten an error message. The traceback is below, and I've tried several times, with automatic partitioning and manual, to no avail.

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

[jlhuge (justhughes)]

Here are the logs

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

Hi and thanks for reporting this issue. Can you please attach /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman as well?

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

Ah, sorry, you hadn't attached them yet.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. I'm afraid that one of your partitions (probably /boot) seems to be too small to complete an Ubuntu desktop installation successfully. Bug 48355 notes that the partitioner should have warned you about this.