Installation hangs on "Ready when you are"

[Anthony Brito]

So I was trying to install Ubuntu through Wubi everything goes fine until the files finish copying. It stays on "Ready when you are" I have provided a installation log for more information. Any help is appreciated.

[bcbc (bcbc)]

How much RAM do you have? Looks like it's running out of memory? (Also looks like the hookup to the failure-command.sh is incorrect)

Sep 6 23:35:39 ubuntu kernel: [ 132.388127] Out of memory: Kill process 4450 (ubiquity) score 181 or sacrifice child
Sep 6 23:35:39 ubuntu kernel: [ 132.388139] Killed process 7118 (debconf-communi) total-vm:73668kB, anon-rss:23248kB, file-rss:2292kB
Sep 6 23:35:40 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]: debconffilter_done: ubi-partman (current: ubi-partman)
Sep 6 23:35:40 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]: Step_before = stepLanguage
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]: Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py", line 581, in <lambda>
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]: glib.idle_add(lambda: self.dbfilter.start(auto_process=True))
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 90, in start
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]: prep = self.prepare()
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-timezone.py", line 352, in prepare
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]: self.preseed('tzsetup/selected', 'false')
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 338, in preseed
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]: self.db.set(name, value)
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 65, in <lambda>
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]: lambda *args, **kw: self.command(command, *args, **kw))
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 69, in command
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]: self.write.write("%s %s\n" % (command, ' '.join(map(str, params))))
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]: IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]:
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: sh:
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity: /custom-installation/hooks/failure-command.sh: not found
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity:
Sep 6 23:35:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]: log-output -t ubiquity sh -c [ -x /custom-installation/hooks/failure-command.sh ] && /custom-installation/hooks/failure-command.sh
Sep 6 23:35:49 ubuntu kernel: [ 141.645545] Adding 262136k swap on /host/ubuntu/disks/swap.disk. Priority:-1 extents:76 across:88694000k
Sep 6 23:35:50 ubuntu partman: mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
Sep 6 23:35:59 ubuntu kernel: [ 152.180077] EXT4-fs (loop2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: errors=remount-ro
Sep 6 23:36:02 ubuntu ubiquity[4450]: debconffilter_done: ubiquity.components.partman_commit (current: ubi-timezone)
Sep 6 23:36:04 ubuntu install.py: keeping packages due to preseeding:
Sep 6 23:36:04 ubuntu install.py: keeping language packs for: en
Sep 6 23:36:10 ubuntu ubiquity: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/deprecation.py:96: UserWarning: Deprecated parameter 'autoFix'
Sep 6 23:36:10 ubuntu ubiquity: warnings.warn("Deprecated parameter %r" % key)
Sep 6 23:42:26 ubuntu...

[bcbc (bcbc)]

I see from your question https://answers.launchpad.net/wubi/+question/170218 that you have 512MB RAM, however it's shared with the video card (up to 128MB) so this is probably the problem. See bug 820842 that talks about problems on systems with only 512MB ram.

Unfortunately Wubi requires the Ubiquity installer so there is not much you can do about this. The alternate installer requires less RAM but it is only for standalone installs.

[bcbc (bcbc)]

PS I didn't notice that bug 820842 was referring to a VM install.

[Anthony Brito (abrito)]

Ah okay, that explains it. Unfortunately I don't think I will be able to upgrade the ram on this computer nor will I bother it's already too old but when I do finish my new computer I may try this again. But I really do appreciate the help.