Ubuntu Installer Crash

[Omnipius]

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 264, in run
    self.progress_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 553, 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

Ubiquity 1.0.17
Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:31:57 INFO switched to page stepLanguage
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/localechooser']' for ubiquity.components.language.Language
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^languagechooser/language-name
Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:32:06 INFO Step_before = stepLanguage
Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:32:10 INFO switched to page stepLocation
Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:32:10 INFO Step_after = stepLocation
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$

(time-admin:7293): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:30:14 INFO Step_before = stepLocation
Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:30:14 INFO switched to page stepKeyboardConf
Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:30:14 INFO Step_after = stepKeyboardConf
ubiquity: kbd-chooser prepare
ubiquity: Starting up '['/bin/sh', '-c', '. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule; exec /usr/lib/ubiquity/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser']' for ubiquity.components.kbd_chooser.KbdChooser
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^kbd-chooser/method$, ^console-keymaps.*/keymap$, ERROR
ubiquity: apply_keyboard: us
ubiquity: apply_keyboard: layout us, model pc104
ubiquity: Display map: {u'Swedish': u'se-latin1', u'Icelandic': u'is-latin1', u'Estonian': u'et', u'Romanian': u'ro', u'Italian': u'it', u'Latin American': u'la-latin1', u'Dutch': u'nl', u'Brazilian (EUA layout)': u'br-latin1', u'Belgian': u'be2-latin1', u'Danish': u'dk-latin1', u'Bulgarian': u'bg', u'Turkish (F layout)': u'trfu', u'Hungarian': u'hu', u'Macedonian': u'mk', u'Lithuanian': u'lt', u'French': u'fr-latin9', u'Norwegian': u'no-latin1', u'Slovakian': u'sk-qwerty', u'Russian': u'ru', u'Dvorak': u'dvorak', u'Slovene': u'slovene', u'Finnish': u'fi-latin1', u'British English': u'uk', u'Spanish': u'es', u'Greek': u'gr', u'Canadian French': u'cf', u'Latvian': u'lv-latin4', u'American English': u'us', u'Croatian': u'croat', u'Portuguese': u'pt-latin1', u'Czech': u'cz-lat2', u'Ukrainian': u'ua', u'Japanese': u'jp106', u'Belarusian': u'by', u'Turkish (Q layout)': u'trqu', u'German': u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'Hebrew': u'hebrew', u'Polish': u'pl', u'Brazilian (ABNT2 layout)': u'br-abnt2', u'Swiss French': u'fr_CH-latin1', u'Swiss German': u'sg-latin1', u'Serbian (Cyrillic)': u'sr-cy'}
ubiquity: Untranslated choices: [u'by', u'bg', u'croat', u'cz-lat2', u'sg-latin1', u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'dk-latin1', u'us', u'uk', u'dvorak', u'et', u'es', u'la-latin1', u'fi-latin1', u'fr-latin9', u'be2-latin1', u'cf', u'fr_CH-latin1', u'gr', u'hebrew', u'hu', u'is-latin1', u'it', u'lt', u'lv-latin4', u'jp106', u'mk', u'no-latin1', u'nl', u'pl', u'pt-latin1', u'br-abnt2', u'br-latin1', u'ro', u'ru', u'sk-qwerty', u'slovene', u'sr-cy', u'se-latin1', u'trfu', u'trqu', u'ua']
ubiquity: Choices: [u'Belarusian', u'Bulgarian', u'Croatian', u'Czech', u'Swiss German', u'German', u'Danish', u'American English', u'British English', u'Dvorak', u'Estonian', u'Spanish', u'Latin American', u'Finnish', u'French', u'Belgian', u'Canadian French', u'Swiss French', u'Greek', u'Hebrew', u'Hungarian', u'Icelandic', u'Italian', u'Lithuanian', u'Latvian', u'Japanese', u'Macedonian', u'Norwegian', u'Dutch', u'Polish', u'Portuguese', u'Brazilian (ABNT2 layout)', u'Brazilian (EUA layout)', u'Romanian', u'Russian', u'Slovakian', u'Slovene', u'Serbian (Cyrillic)', u'Swedish', u'Turkish (F layout)', u'Turkish (Q layout)', u'Ukrainian']
ubiquity: console-keymaps-at/keymap db: us
Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:30:25 INFO Step_before = stepKeyboardConf
Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:30:25 INFO switched to page stepUserInfo
Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:30:25 INFO Step_after = stepUserInfo
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/user-setup/user-setup-ask', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.usersetup.UserSetup
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^passwd/user-fullname$, ^passwd/username$, ^passwd/user-password$, ^passwd/user-password-again$, ERROR
ON STATE: 1
ON STATE: 2
ON STATE: 3
ON STATE: 4
ON STATE: 5
ON STATE: 6
ON STATE: 4
ON STATE: 5
ON STATE: 6
ON STATE: 7
ON STATE: 8
Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:31:06 INFO Step_before = stepUserInfo
Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:31:06 INFO switched to page stepPartDisk
Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:31:06 INFO Step_after = stepPartDisk
ubiquity: Starting up '/bin/partman' for ubiquity.components.partman.Partman
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^partman-auto/select_disk$, ^partman-auto/.*automatically_partition$, ^partman-partitioning/new_size$, ^partman/choose_partition$, ^partman/confirm.*, type:boolean, ERROR, PROGRESS
unsupported
kernelmodules_basicfilesystems
kernelmodules_ext3
kernelmodules_jfs
kernelmodules_reiserfs
kernelmodules_xfs
umount_target
parted
dump
update_partitions
filesystems_detected
auto_mountpoints
autouse_swap
backup
Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:31:49 INFO switched to page stepPartAuto
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 31: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 31: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 31: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 31: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:32:21 INFO switched to page stepReady
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/summary']' for ubiquity.components.summary.Summary
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^ubiquity/summary$
swapon: /dev/hda5: Device or resource busy
swapon: /dev/hda5: Device or resource busy
swapon: /dev/hda5: Device or resource busy
swapon: /dev/hda5: Device or resource busy
umount /target/
swapoff /dev/hda5
chroot: cannot run command `apt-get': No such file or directory
Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:35:20 INFO progress_loop()
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py']' for ubiquity.components.install.Install
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^.*/apt-install-failed$, grub-installer/install_to_xfs, CAPB, ERROR, PROGRESS
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:17: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet
  warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)
cat: /var/lib/acpi-support/system-manufacturer: No such file or directory
cat: /var/lib/acpi-support/system-product-name: No such file or directory
cat: /var/lib/acpi-support/system-version: No such file or directory
cat: /var/lib/acpi-support/bios-version: No such file or directory
ubiquity: Starting up '['sh', '-c', '/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/post-base-installer && /usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/prebaseconfig']' for ubiquity.components.language_apply.LanguageApply
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Skipping locales, it is already installed and upgrade is not set.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
E: Couldn't find package localization-config
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Skipping console-tools, it is already installed and upgrade is not set.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/apt-setup']' for ubiquity.components.apt_setup.AptSetup
/usr/lib/ubiquity/apt-setup/generators/01setup: line 7: /target/etc/apt/sources.list: No such file or directory
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release [34.8kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages [619kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Packages [4571B]
Fetched 659kB in 4s (144kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Sources [255kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Sources [1478B]
Fetched 257kB in 1s (142kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release [30.9kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages [71.4kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Packages [14B]
Fetched 103kB in 1s (89.6kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Sources [46.3kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Sources [14B]
Fetched 46.3kB in 0s (53.8kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release [30.9kB]
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages [46.4kB]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages [4275B]
Fetched 81.8kB in 1s (42.1kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages
Fetched 1B in 0s (1B/s)
Reading package lists...
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Sources [11.5kB]
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Sources [974B]
Fetched 12.5kB in 0s (13.3kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:50:01 INFO keeping language packs for: en
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/tzsetup/prebaseconfig']' for ubiquity.components.timezone_apply.TimezoneApply
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/clock-setup']' for ubiquity.components.clock_setup.ClockSetup
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/kbd-chooser/prebaseconfig']' for ubiquity.components.kbd_chooser_apply.KbdChooserApply
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/user-setup/user-setup-apply', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.usersetup_apply.UserSetupApply
chpasswd: line 1: unknown user shadow
chpasswd: error detected, changes ignored
ubiquity: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/user-setup/user-setup-apply', '/target'] exited with code 1
ubiquity: ['/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py'] exited with code 1
Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
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 264, in run
    self.progress_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 553, 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

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

Thanks for reporting this. This happened because the username 'shadow' is reserved and cannot be used. It is a known issue - see bug 47861