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ubiquity package

Could'nt install from USB-Key, Not able to import personal documents and settings

Bug #995220 reported by Michael Staengl
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Bug Description

On my USB-key, they are additional files. But on my own notebook that was not a problem. Here on this notebook, a DELL Vostro, this problem happened with all possible formatting and partitioning constellations.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.10.16
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.315
Date: Sat May 5 20:49:15 2012
InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=unknown
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Michael Staengl (mistang) wrote :
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote : Traceback

Exception during installation:
May 5 20:49:04 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
May 5 20:49:04 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1735, in <module>
May 5 20:49:04 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
May 5 20:49:04 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
May 5 20:49:04 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
May 5 20:49:04 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 166, in run
May 5 20:49:04 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.configure_face()
May 5 20:49:04 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 287, in configure_face
May 5 20:49:04 ubuntu plugininstall.py: shutil.copy2(PHOTO_PATH, targetpath)
May 5 20:49:04 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 128, in copy2
May 5 20:49:04 ubuntu plugininstall.py: copyfile(src, dst)
May 5 20:49:04 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 83, in copyfile
May 5 20:49:04 ubuntu plugininstall.py: with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
May 5 20:49:04 ubuntu plugininstall.py: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/target/home/karl/.face'
May 5 20:49:04 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

tags: added: installer-crash
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

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 998492, 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.

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