Installer crashed.

Bug #62516 reported by Jenda Vančura
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Bug Description

I was given the following notice, twice, while trying to restore MBR/GRUB, because I moved my / partition.

We're sorry; the installer crashed. Please file a bug report at https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+filebug and a developer will attend to the problem as soon as possible. To help the developers understand what went wrong, include the following detail in your bug report, and attach the files /var/log/installer/syslog, /var/log/syslog, and /var/log/partman:

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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Jenda Vančura (jenda) wrote : Attached file: /var/log/installer/syslog
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Ubiquity 1.0.12
Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:31:16 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
Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:31:19 INFO Step_before = stepLanguage
Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:31:19 INFO switched to page stepLocation
Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:31:19 INFO Step_after = stepLocation
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$
Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:31:28 INFO Step_before = stepLocation
Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:31:28 INFO switched to page stepKeyboardConf
Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:31:28 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'P...

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Jenda Vančura (jenda) wrote : Attached file: /var/log/syslog
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Sep 26 21:28:40 ubuntu syslogd 1.4.1#17ubuntu7: restart.
Sep 26 21:28:41 ubuntu dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
Sep 26 21:28:41 ubuntu kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.15-23-386
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: Loaded 23018 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.15-23-386.
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.15.
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled.
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] Linux version 2.6.15-23-386 (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1 PREEMPT Tue May 23 13:49:40 UTC 2006
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fe80000 (usable)
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000001fe80000 - 000000001fe89000 (ACPI data)
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000001fe89000 - 000000001ff00000 (ACPI NVS)
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000001ff00000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0006000 (reserved)
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000f0008000 - 00000000f000c000 (reserved)
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fed00000 - 00000000fed00400 (reserved)
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fed20000 - 00000000fed90000 (reserved)
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] 510MB LOWMEM available.
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] On node 0 totalpages: 130688
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] Normal zone: 126592 pages, LIFO batch:31
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] DMI present.
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f6970
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x1fe80f79
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: FADT (v001 INTEL ALVISO 0x06040000 LOHR 0x0000005f) @ 0x1fe88e8a
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: MADT (v001 INTEL ALVISO 0x06040000 LOHR 0x0000005f) @ 0x1fe88efe
Sep 26 21:28:42 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: HPET (v001 INTEL ALVISO 0x0...

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Jenda Vančura (jenda) wrote : Attached file: /var/log/partman
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/bin/partman: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/01unsupported: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: *******************************************************
parted_server: ======= Starting the server
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 1
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=hda /dev/hda
parted_server: Read command: OPEN
parted_server: command_open()
parted_server: Request to open =dev=hda
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Note =dev=hda as unchanged
parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 2
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/35dump: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/35dump: IN: DUMP =dev=hda
parted_server: Read command: DUMP
parted_server: command_dump()
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 3
parted_server: Opening infifo
Device: yes
Model: HTS421260H9AT00
Path: /dev/hda
Sector size: 512
Sectors: 117210240
Sectors/track: 63
Heads: 255
Cylinders: 7296
Partition table: yes
Type: msdos
Partitions: # id length type fs path name
(0,0,0) (0,0,62) -1 0-32255 32256 primary label /dev/hda-1
(0,1,0) (1304,254,62) 1 32256-10733990399 10733958144 primary ext3 /dev/hda1
(1305,0,0) (5924,254,62) 2 10733990400-48734783999 38000793600 primary ext3 /dev/hda2
(5925,0,0) (7071,254,62) 3 48734784000-58169180159 9434396160 primary ext3 /dev/hda3
(7072,0,0) (7295,254,62) 4 58169180160-60011642879 1842462720 primary linux-swap /dev/hda4
Dump finished.
/lib/partman/init.d/70update_partitions: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/70update_partitions: IN: PARTITIONS =dev=hda
parted_server: Read command: PARTITIONS
parted_server: command_partitions()
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT: 1 32256-10733990399 10733958144 primary ext3 /dev/hda1

parted_server: OUT: 2 10733990400-48734783999 38000793600 primary ext3 /dev/hda2

parted_server: OUT: 3 48734784000-58169180159 9434396160 primary ext3 /dev/hda3

parted_server: OUT: 4 58169180160-60011642879 1842462720 primary linux-swap /dev/hda4

parted_server: Partitions printed
parted_server: OUT:

parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 4
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/update.d/20bootable: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/update.d/20bootable: IN: GET_FLAGS =dev=hda 32256-10733990399
parted_server: Read command: GET_FLAGS
parted_server: command_get_flags()
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: partition_with_id(32256-10733990399)
parted_server: Partition found (32256-10733990399)
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT:

parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 5
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/update.d/20detected_filesystem: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/update.d/20detected_file...

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Jenda Vančura (jenda) wrote : Maybe misunderstood.

Aha, i misread the instructions to restoring the MBR, so this might not be a bug afterall... in which case the bug is that it complains that it is a bug.
I'm guessing the problem could be that I'm attempting to install to existing partitions without reformat.

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Vassilis Pandis (pandisv) wrote :

Thanks for your report. At present, you must reformat system partitions (e.g. /, /boot, /usr, or /var) during installation; the fact that the partitioner doesn't warn you about this is also bug 47046, and is fixed in 6.06.1. If you are upgrading an existing installation, then please see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperUpgrades rather than using this installer.

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