Installation failure--perhaps due to 137G swap partition...

Bug #885901 reported by Alex Eftimiades
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Bug Description

I use a ridiculous amount of swap for scientific simulations, so I tried partitioning the swap at the point of installation. That is really the only thing I did differently in this installation.

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 x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 3 18:10:37 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Alex Eftimiades (alexeftimiades) wrote :
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote : Traceback

Exception during installation:
Nov 3 18:10:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Nov 3 18:10:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1641, in <module>
Nov 3 18:10:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Nov 3 18:10:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
Nov 3 18:10:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Nov 3 18:10:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 255, in run
Nov 3 18:10:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.db.progress('SET', self.end)
Nov 3 18:10:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 60, in <lambda>
Nov 3 18:10:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: lambda *args, **kw: self.command(command, *args, **kw))
Nov 3 18:10:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 96, in command
Nov 3 18:10:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: raise DebconfError(status, data)
Nov 3 18:10:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: DebconfError: (10, "oem-config/enable doesn't exist")
Nov 3 18:10:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

tags: added: installer-crash
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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

This version has expired for some time

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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