Installer crashed msg when installing Ubuntu 10.10 amd64

[Eduardo Kortright]

I had a WinXP and Ubuntu (32-bit) dual boot machine. I wanted to replace WinXP with Ubuntu 64-bit, so that I could try it out without deleting my existing Ubuntu 32-bit installation.

I created a bootable thumb drive from the ISO, chose "Try Ubuntu" to check it out, saw that everything looked good, then ran the "Intall Ubuntu" application by double-clicking on the icon on the desktop (i.e., did not restart the machine).

I clicked on the two checkboxes to download proprietary stuff.

I chose the option to manage the partitions myself and deleted the WinXP partition and reformatted it with Ext4 and chose / for the mount point, then selected it for installation.

After downloading files it seemed about to finish, then I got a message saying "Installer crashed", instructing me to file this bug report. It said to include the following detail, but the message does not give any details.

[Eduardo Kortright (ekortright)]

After filing the bug report, halted the machine manually, then restarted.

I got the GRUB menu showing the new install (the WinXP option is gone). Selected it, and everything looks OK so far.

Should I re-run the installation?

[Denver Holbrook (deholbrook84-deactivatedaccount)]

/var/log/syslog ; /var/log/partman:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Exception during installation:
Jan 3 19:47:10 ubuntu python: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jan 3 19:47:10 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1424, in <module>
Jan 3 19:47:10 ubuntu python: install.run()
Jan 3 19:47:10 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 54, in wrapper
Jan 3 19:47:10 ubuntu python: func(self)
Jan 3 19:47:10 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 187, in run
Jan 3 19:47:10 ubuntu python: self.remove_extras()
Jan 3 19:47:10 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1214, in remove_extras
Jan 3 19:47:10 ubuntu python: self.do_remove(regular)
Jan 3 19:47:10 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 871, in do_remove
Jan 3 19:47:10 ubuntu python: if not cache.commit(fetchprogress, installprogress):
Jan 3 19:47:10 ubuntu python: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/deprecation.py", line 98, in deprecated_function
Jan 3 19:47:10 ubuntu python: return func(*args, **kwds)
Jan 3 19:47:10 ubuntu python: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 424, in commit
Jan 3 19:47:10 ubuntu python: res = self._fetch_archives(fetcher, pm)
Jan 3 19:47:10 ubuntu python: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 271, in _fetch_archives
Jan 3 19:47:10 ubuntu python: raise LockFailedException("Failed to lock %s" % lockfile)
Jan 3 19:47:10 ubuntu python: LockFailedException: Failed to lock /target/var/cache/apt/archives/lock
Jan 3 19:47:10 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.