Installer crashed (Ubuntu 11.04)

[Chris]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

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HP Pavillion Laptop with WinXP (100GB HD), shrunk the main partition, deleted a 1GB partition, created a 20GB partition (primary) in space from shrinking, assigned for root, created a 1 GB partition (extended) for swap space. Ran the installer from recently downloaded ISO 11.04 i386 Desktop.

At the first attempt the installer said I needed to run CHKDSK before it could repartition (I forget if that's what it said, but that's what the issue was). After CHKDSK I used Norton Utils to defrag, used the Live CD to shrink the main volume (by 20GB) and delete a 1GB partition at the end of the drive (that I do not know what it was being used for, but was reported as NTFS and basically full, but with no drive letter assigned).

Started the second attempt, set it to download updates while installing, set it going and went to bed. In the morning it said installer failed, to file a new bug report and attach 2 log files (syslog & partman). The option below does not seem to allow me to attach more than 1 file, so I combined them with syslog at the top.

[Chris (testing-cs-comp)]

Just for kicks, reboot the laptop, saw it had the full boot menu, so tried booting up to Ubuntu, and it seems to be working OK. So I do not know if there is a problem or not. The System Monitor shows 1GB of swap space. I haven't done a ton of stuff yet, but I did some stuff with Firefox and setting some system preferences. So I don't know if there's anything for you all to do, but the message wanted me to report the issue, so I did. :-)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Exception during installation:
May 14 11:53:43 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
May 14 11:53:43 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1547, in <module>
May 14 11:53:43 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
May 14 11:53:43 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 56, in wrapper
May 14 11:53:43 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
May 14 11:53:43 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 208, in run
May 14 11:53:43 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.remove_extras()
May 14 11:53:43 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1303, in remove_extras
May 14 11:53:43 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.do_remove(regular)
May 14 11:53:43 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 923, in do_remove
May 14 11:53:43 ubuntu plugininstall.py: if not cache.commit(fetchprogress, installprogress):
May 14 11:53:43 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/deprecation.py", line 98, in deprecated_function
May 14 11:53:43 ubuntu plugininstall.py: return func(*args, **kwds)
May 14 11:53:43 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 433, in commit
May 14 11:53:43 ubuntu plugininstall.py: res = self._fetch_archives(fetcher, pm)
May 14 11:53:43 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 279, in _fetch_archives
May 14 11:53:43 ubuntu plugininstall.py: raise LockFailedException("Failed to lock %s" % lockfile)
May 14 11:53:43 ubuntu plugininstall.py: LockFailedException: Failed to lock /target/var/cache/apt/archives/lock
May 14 11:53:43 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[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.