Ubuntu
ubiquity package

Installer on 6.06LTS Crashes at 96%

Bug #59070 reported by j1p on 2006-09-05

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

Dell Latitude D610 laptop, many successful installations of ubuntu and other linux flavors previously.

Installer got to 96%, Configuring Bootloader and gave me this message:

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

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j1p (j1peirce) wrote on 2006-09-05:

/var/log/installer/syslog Edit (14.1 KiB, text/plain)

Attached is /var/log/installer/syslog

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j1p (j1peirce) wrote on 2006-09-05:

/var/log/syslog Edit (64.4 KiB, text/plain)

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j1p (j1peirce) wrote on 2006-09-05:

/var/log/partman Edit (79.2 KiB, text/plain)

I have checked the CD for errors and it shows no errors.

Attached is /var/log/partman

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2006-09-13:

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.