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ubiquity package

  1. Bug #89461
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Comment 1 for bug 89461

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Stephen Gornick (sgornick) wrote : Re: Crash if old install exists on harddrive

With Feisty Herd-5 i386 I too get this:
   OSError: [Errno 17] File exists.

From syslog:
   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1468, in <module>
     install.run()
   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 307, in run
     self.copy_all()
   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 481, in copy_all
     os.mknod(targetpath, stat.S_IFCHR | mode, st.st_rdev)
 OSError: [Errno 17] File exists

It occurs when I set as the root mount point (/) an existing ext3 partition that already has an Ubuntu Feisty Herd installation.

For me, there is no indication that the installer crashed, and instead had to determine problem from the syslog. On the desktop is a /target mount:
  $ cat /etc/mtab |grep -i target
/dev/hda7 /target ext3 rw 0 0