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ubiquity package

Installer crashed.

Bug #74165 reported by Addzero on 2006-12-02

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #90575: MASTER: need further sanity checking on grub device names. Edit Remove

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

Bug Description

My only guess is that it did not like how I partitioned the drive, with root in a later partition in a 320gb drive? (my last Linux install, Fedora core wanted me to have root or a boot partition one of the first. Is that still necessary?)
Thanks

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 385, in run
    self.configure_bootloader()
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1163, in configure_bootloader
    raise InstallStepError(
InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1

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Jeff Greene (jeffgreene) wrote on 2006-12-02:

Your description was huge, so I deleted the two files in the description and I will attach them.

description:

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Jeff Greene (jeffgreene) wrote on 2006-12-02:

syslog Edit (196.5 KiB, text/plain)

Attached is /var/log/syslog.

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Jeff Greene (jeffgreene) wrote on 2006-12-02:

partman Edit (625.8 KiB, text/plain)

Attached is /var/log/partman.

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Jeff Greene (jeffgreene) wrote on 2006-12-03:

I believe the cause of the error is that it was trying to install grub on an invalid device. You could try doing (hd2) or /dev/sda instead of (sda) for where to install grub.

Dec 2 09:40:01 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '(sda)'
Dec 2 09:40:01 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
Dec 2 09:40:01 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target /sbin/grub-install --no-floppy "(sda)"
Dec 2 09:40:02 ubuntu grub-installer: Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
Dec 2 09:40:02 ubuntu grub-installer: Format of install_device not recognized.
Dec 2 09:40:02 ubuntu grub-installer: Usage: grub-install [OPTION] install_device