Ubuntu
ubiquity package

installer crashed

Bug #816246 reported by Ashanti Hall on 2011-07-26

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

This bug affects 1 person

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

Bug Description

It told me to attach files var/log/syslog and var/log/partman: I will do so. I'm new to Ubuntu; but not to computers... holla
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Ashanti Hall (warriorofwisdom) wrote on 2011-07-26:

syslog Edit (154.1 KiB, text/plain)

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Ashanti Hall (warriorofwisdom) wrote on 2011-07-26:

partman Edit (108.4 KiB, text/plain)

not sure how to attach the other file so I'm doin' it this-a-way

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 26 04:43:54 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jul 26 04:43:54 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1547, in <module>
Jul 26 04:43:54 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Jul 26 04:43:54 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 56, in wrapper
Jul 26 04:43:54 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Jul 26 04:43:54 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 208, in run
Jul 26 04:43:54 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.remove_extras()
Jul 26 04:43:54 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1303, in remove_extras
Jul 26 04:43:54 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.do_remove(regular)
Jul 26 04:43:54 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 923, in do_remove
Jul 26 04:43:54 ubuntu plugininstall.py: if not cache.commit(fetchprogress, installprogress):
Jul 26 04:43:54 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/deprecation.py", line 98, in deprecated_function
Jul 26 04:43:54 ubuntu plugininstall.py: return func(*args, **kwds)
Jul 26 04:43:54 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 433, in commit
Jul 26 04:43:54 ubuntu plugininstall.py: res = self._fetch_archives(fetcher, pm)
Jul 26 04:43:54 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 279, in _fetch_archives
Jul 26 04:43:54 ubuntu plugininstall.py: raise LockFailedException("Failed to lock %s" % lockfile)
Jul 26 04:43:54 ubuntu plugininstall.py: LockFailedException: Failed to lock /target/var/cache/apt/archives/lock
Jul 26 04:43:54 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

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added: installer-crash

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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.