Ubuntu
ubiquity package

Installer Crashed

Bug #73523 reported by Kratos on 2006-11-27

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #47046: breaks if system partitions are not reformatted. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 157, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 152, in main
    install(sys.argv[1])
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 57, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 341, in run
    self.process_step()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 803, in process_step
    self.progress_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 581, 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 1377, in ?
    install.run()
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 305, in run
    self.copy_all()
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 460, in copy_all
    os.mknod(targetpath, stat.S_IFCHR | mode, st.st_rdev)
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists

Revision history for this message

Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2006-12-01:

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.