Ubiquity crashed during install - Natty - HP DV7 - Intel Centrino

[Simon Ives]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Ubiquity reported a crash during the "Removing Packages" stage of the install and provided the link to file a bug here. I'm installing on a HP DV7 with an Intel Centrino processor and an ATI Raedon Graphics Card. I dual boot Windows 7 and am attempting to reformat an earlier Ubuntu install over two partitions, '/' and '/home'.

Launchpad will only allow one attachment so I've attached var-log-syslog. I'll see if I can attach var-log-partman in a comment below.

[Simon Ives (simon-simonives)]

var-log-partman for above as stated.

[Simon Ives (simon-simonives)]

Reinstalled with the 'download updates from the internet' option off and all worked fine. I suppose a choppy internet connection disrupts the installer.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Exception during installation:
Jun 6 12:39:06 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jun 6 12:39:06 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1547, in <module>
Jun 6 12:39:06 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Jun 6 12:39:06 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 56, in wrapper
Jun 6 12:39:06 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Jun 6 12:39:06 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 208, in run
Jun 6 12:39:06 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.remove_extras()
Jun 6 12:39:06 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1303, in remove_extras
Jun 6 12:39:06 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.do_remove(regular)
Jun 6 12:39:06 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 923, in do_remove
Jun 6 12:39:06 ubuntu plugininstall.py: if not cache.commit(fetchprogress, installprogress):
Jun 6 12:39:06 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/deprecation.py", line 98, in deprecated_function
Jun 6 12:39:06 ubuntu plugininstall.py: return func(*args, **kwds)
Jun 6 12:39:06 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 433, in commit
Jun 6 12:39:06 ubuntu plugininstall.py: res = self._fetch_archives(fetcher, pm)
Jun 6 12:39:06 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 279, in _fetch_archives
Jun 6 12:39:06 ubuntu plugininstall.py: raise LockFailedException("Failed to lock %s" % lockfile)
Jun 6 12:39:06 ubuntu plugininstall.py: LockFailedException: Failed to lock /target/var/cache/apt/archives/lock
Jun 6 12:39:06 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.