Installer crashed during USB startup disk install of 10.10 amd64

[Nick Breen]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Setup:

Multi-disk setup:
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
/dev/sda1 * 1 30401 244196001 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
/dev/sdb1 1 30401 244196001 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/sdc: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
/dev/sdc1 1 2432 19535008+ 83 Linux ### new /
Disk /dev/sdd: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
/dev/sdd1 * 1 1306 10490413+ 83 Linux #### old /
/dev/sdd2 6529 14593 64782112+ 8e Linux LVM ### contains /home
/dev/sdd3 1307 2765 11719417+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Steps:
1) Booted from Ubuntu 10.10 amd64 USB startup disk.
2) Used apt-get to install lvm2 package
3) Used Disk Utility to remove lvm lv, pv, vg from /dev/sdc and created /dev/sdc1 as reported above
4) Started Install from desktop icon
5) Proceeded with manual partitioning, then user accounts etc...
6) Left it doing it's thing for about an hour
7) came back to an error dialogue "Install crashed" and instructions to file this bug.

[Nick Breen (nickbreen)]

I opted to
  "Download updates while installing."
and
  "Install this third-party software" MP3 rara rara

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Exception during installation:
Nov 12 08:52:37 ubuntu python: Traceback (most recent call last):
Nov 12 08:52:37 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1424, in <module>
Nov 12 08:52:37 ubuntu python: install.run()
Nov 12 08:52:37 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 54, in wrapper
Nov 12 08:52:37 ubuntu python: func(self)
Nov 12 08:52:37 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 187, in run
Nov 12 08:52:37 ubuntu python: self.remove_extras()
Nov 12 08:52:37 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1214, in remove_extras
Nov 12 08:52:37 ubuntu python: self.do_remove(regular)
Nov 12 08:52:37 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 871, in do_remove
Nov 12 08:52:37 ubuntu python: if not cache.commit(fetchprogress, installprogress):
Nov 12 08:52:37 ubuntu python: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/deprecation.py", line 98, in deprecated_function
Nov 12 08:52:37 ubuntu python: return func(*args, **kwds)
Nov 12 08:52:37 ubuntu python: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 424, in commit
Nov 12 08:52:37 ubuntu python: res = self._fetch_archives(fetcher, pm)
Nov 12 08:52:37 ubuntu python: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 271, in _fetch_archives
Nov 12 08:52:37 ubuntu python: raise LockFailedException("Failed to lock %s" % lockfile)
Nov 12 08:52:37 ubuntu python: LockFailedException: Failed to lock /target/var/cache/apt/archives/lock
Nov 12 08:52:37 ubuntu python:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 743359, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.