installation fails on eeepc 701

[yoproramo]

After lot of time installing, the installer crashes (more info on files sent)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Thu Oct 13 21:07:12 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=es_ES.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Oct 13 21:06:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Oct 13 21:06:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[cpisbell (chrisisbell)]

The install fails for me at an even earlier stage because it requires more disk space than the 4GB device on my EEE PC 701. However, 11.10 runs successfully when booted off a 2GB USB memory stick. This is apparently totally inconsistent.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Oct 13 21:06:59 ubuntu ubiquity: /usr/bin/mandb:
Oct 13 21:06:59 ubuntu ubiquity: no se puede escribir en /var/cache/man/18182.
Oct 13 21:06:59 ubuntu ubiquity: : No queda espacio en el dispositivo
Oct 13 21:06:59 ubuntu ubiquity:
Oct 13 21:06:59 ubuntu ubiquity: debconf: DbDriver "templatedb": could not write /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat-new: No queda espacio en el dispositivo
Oct 13 21:06:59 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: error al procesar man-db (--unpack):
Oct 13 21:06:59 ubuntu ubiquity: el subproceso instalado el script post-installation devolvió el código de salida de error 1

[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 220961, 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. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.