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ubiquity package

installer crash on hd2

Bug #78759 reported by Francesco Potortì on 2007-01-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #71984: InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1. Edit Remove

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

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I chose language, keyboard and so on, I manually partitioned hdc, I changed the default (hd0) to (hd2) and went to bed. Now I find that the progress bar is almost at its end and a crash dialog:
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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Francesco Potortì (pot) wrote on 2007-01-11:

/var/log/syslog Edit (92.9 KiB, text/plain)

description:

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Francesco Potortì (pot) wrote on 2007-01-11:

/var/log/partman Edit (217.1 KiB, text/plain)

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Francesco Potortì (pot) wrote on 2007-01-11: more info on the bug and one more crash

The failed installation apparently stopped when launching grub. In fact, the partitions I wanted were populated, the /boot/grub dir was populated, but menu.lst was not there.

I discovered that /dev/hdc is in fact (hd1), not (hd2), so I launched the installer again, telling it to reformat the root partition, but this time it crashed right after the dialog with the list of filesystems:

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 850, in process_step
    self.mountpoints_to_summary()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 1155, in mountpoints_to_summary
    for device, mountpoint in self.auto_mountpoints.iteritems():
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'iteritems'