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ubiquity package

Installation Crashed

Bug #805058 reported by Manuel Drews on 2011-07-03

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #743359: Installer: LockFailedException: Failed to lock /target/var/cache/apt/archives/lock. Edit Remove

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

Bug Description

Tried to install 11.04 64bit on a partition where I had a 10.10 installed. Chose 'Delete old installation', not 'Update existing installation'.
Sony Vaio Notebook VPCF1, Win7-64 parallel installation

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Manuel Drews (manuel-drews) wrote on 2011-07-03:

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Manuel Drews (manuel-drews) wrote on 2011-07-03:

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2011-07-28

tags:	added: ubiquity-2.6.10
tags:	added: natty

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2011-08-02: Traceback

Exception during installation:
Jul 3 10:28:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jul 3 10:28:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1547, in <module>
Jul 3 10:28:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Jul 3 10:28:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 56, in wrapper
Jul 3 10:28:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Jul 3 10:28:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 208, in run
Jul 3 10:28:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.remove_extras()
Jul 3 10:28:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1303, in remove_extras
Jul 3 10:28:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.do_remove(regular)
Jul 3 10:28:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 923, in do_remove
Jul 3 10:28:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: if not cache.commit(fetchprogress, installprogress):
Jul 3 10:28:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/deprecation.py", line 98, in deprecated_function
Jul 3 10:28:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: return func(*args, **kwds)
Jul 3 10:28:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 433, in commit
Jul 3 10:28:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: res = self._fetch_archives(fetcher, pm)
Jul 3 10:28:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 279, in _fetch_archives
Jul 3 10:28:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: raise LockFailedException("Failed to lock %s" % lockfile)
Jul 3 10:28:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: LockFailedException: Failed to lock /target/var/cache/apt/archives/lock
Jul 3 10:28:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2011-08-03:

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.