installer failed

[david robertson]

installer failed for kubuntu 6.06.1, i386 desktop.

Sorry I don't have ubuntu installed so don't have access to linux filesystem to copy logs to you.
I already had problems using live CD. Have a Dell with a PCI Express ATI Radeon X300 SE that has primary and secondary driver. Had to start in safe video mode.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 130, in ?
    install(sys.argv[1])
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 54, in install
    wizard = ui.Wizard(distro)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 158, in __init__
    cloexec=True))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/debconf.py", line 125, in __init__
    write=self.dccomm.tochild)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/debconf.py", line 48, in __init__
    self.setUp(title)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/debconf.py", line 51, in setUp
    self.version = self.version(2)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/debconf.py", line 60, in <lambda>
    lambda *args, **kw: self.command(command, *args, **kw))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/debconf.py", line 81, in command
    status = int(status)
ValueError: invalid literal for int():

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

Hello. Thanks for filing a bug. It would be quite useful to have the log files to trace this bug, though you would have to repeat the install attempt with the same Live CD to get them.

This page contains detailed information on uploading log files: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUbiquity/AttachingLogs

[david robertson (davejeanne)]

Thank you for replying to my bug report.

The problem is completely fixed.
I bought and installed an nVideo GeForce 7300 GS in place of the ATI
Radeon X300 SE.
With the Radeon card, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and and Ubuntu 6.10 would not
load from the live CD.
Both Ubuntu versions left me with a text login screen.
I actually completed one installation of Kubuntu 6.06, but the system
soon crashed and thereafter the live CD failed to load any more.
That was when I filed the bug report.
Since installing the nVideo card, I have successfully installed
Ubuntu 6.06
Ubuntu 6.10
Kubuntu 6.06
Kubuntu 6.10
I tried each of the four and ended up keeping Ubuntu 6.10.
Ubuntu 6.10 has been running with no problems now for at least a month.
I apologize for not letting you know sooner.

I tried the new video card because I checked out all the Ubuntu
forums and I could not find any reports of a complete failure of the
live CD to load.
That made me suspect that my hardware was causing the problem.

David Robertson.

On Dec 18, 2006, at 9:51 AM, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:

> Hello. Thanks for filing a bug. It would be quite useful to have
> the log
> files to trace this bug, though you would have to repeat the install
> attempt with the same Live CD to get them.
>
> This page contains detailed information on uploading log files:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUbiquity/AttachingLogs
>
>
> ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
> --
> installer failed
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/69933

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

We are seeing a large number of these bugs (which we are tagging as debconf-frontend-crash). While we are not 100% that they all have the same cause (we have not yet found the cause) we are grouping them together as duplicates.

I suspect it's not actually related to the graphics card issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Bolek (bmynars)]

Thank you for the follow up, Henrik.

On 1/8/07, Henrik Nilsen Omma <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 52682 ***
>
> We are seeing a large number of these bugs (which we are tagging as
> debconf-frontend-crash). While we are not 100% that they all have the
> same cause (we have not yet found the cause) we are grouping them
> together as duplicates.
>
> I suspect it's not actually related to the graphics card issue.
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 52682
> debconf frontend went away -- kde-ui
>
> --
> installer failed
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/69933
>

--

Bolek