Installer crashed

[Daniel Nylander]

6.10 live cd i386 desktop

(cut & paste does not work, manually entering data)

 Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 166, in ?
     main()
   File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 161, in main
     install(sys.argv[1])
   File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 57, in install
     ret = wizard.run()
   File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 305, in run
     self.process_step()
   File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 856, in process_step
     self.progress_loop()
   File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 628, in progress_loop
     raise RuntimeError, ("Install failed with exit code %s\n%s" %
 RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1404, in ?
     install.run()
   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 390, in run
     self.remove_extras()
   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1341, in remove_extras
     self.do_remove(difference)
   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1258, in do_remove
     if not cache.commit(fetchprogress, installprogress):
   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/cache.py", line 204, in commit
     res = self.installArchives(pm, installProgress)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/cache.py", line 179, in installArchives
     res = installProgress.run(pm)
   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 200, in run
     res = pm.DoInstall(self.writefd)
 SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Daniel Nylander (yeager)]

Here is the syslog

[Daniel Nylander (yeager)]

Here is /var/log/partman

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. It's not entirely clear why network-manager couldn't be removed here (this may be a separate bug), but ubiquity's poor response to this event is bug 69470.