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grub-installer package

Installer crashed on trying to install to external disk

Bug #1000960 reported by Steven Pemberton on 2012-05-17

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	grub-installer (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Installing onto an external disk (which will eventually replace the internal one).

Couldn't write the boot partition (sorry, I failed to write down the exact message).

Warns me that I may not be able to boot my machine. Haven't yet checked.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.10.16
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.315
Date: Thu May 17 21:38:00 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 amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
TERM=linux
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Steven Pemberton (steven-pemberton) wrote on 2012-05-17:

Casper.txt Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityDebug.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityDm.txt Edit (5.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityPartman.txt Edit (334.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquitySyslog.txt Edit (291.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2012-05-17: Traceback

Exception during installation:
May 17 19:37:55 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
May 17 19:37:55 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1735, in <module>
May 17 19:37:55 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
May 17 19:37:55 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
May 17 19:37:55 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
May 17 19:37:55 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 204, in run
May 17 19:37:55 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.configure_bootloader()
May 17 19:37:55 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1013, in configure_bootloader
May 17 19:37:55 ubuntu plugininstall.py: "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
May 17 19:37:55 ubuntu plugininstall.py: InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1
May 17 19:37:55 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

tags:

added: installer-crash

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2012-05-17

affects:

ubiquity (Ubuntu) → grub-installer (Ubuntu)

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