Binary package hint: ubiquity
Install of kubuntu 10.04 beta1 ended with a popup saying it had crashed while installing grub. Then a dialog with the following backtrace:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 468, in <module>
main(oem_config)
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 453, in main
install(args[0], query=options.query)
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 243, in install
ret = wizard.run()
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_ui.py", line 450, in run
self.progress_loop()
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_ui.py", line 846, in progress_loop
(ret, realtb))
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 2430, in <module>
install.run()
File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 400, in run
self.configure_bootloader()
File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1605, in configure_bootloader
self.db.input('critical', bootdev)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 65, in <lambda>
lambda *args, **kw: self.command(command, *args, **kw))
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 86, in command
status = int(status)
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
I now can't get past this error while installing the release version of Kubuntu 10.04.
I have a separate /boot partition that I did not wish to format during installation in case something went wrong. The drive has partitions for Windows, swap, /home, /usr/local, and two partitions for the operating systems. One is occupied by 9.10, the other was created to hold 10.04.
The first time I ran the installer everything worked as expected with the 10.04 kernel images added to the grub menu. However I need to reinstall after making some manual changes to the authentication files in /etc that seemed to cause problems for dbus. All subsequent attempts to install following the same procedure as before now results in the ubiquity error during the installation of grub.