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ubiquity package

Installer couldn't install grub on /dev/sda

Bug #882662 reported by Bashar
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Bug Description

I was installing 11.10 on a PC with 2 harddisks. The installation was nearly at an end when I got a message saying that it wasn't possible to install Grub on /dev/sda and it enabled me to chose /dev/sdb from a drop down menu but then that failed also.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Fri Oct 28 00:44:53 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Bashar (bashar) wrote :
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Bashar (bashar) wrote :

Just for the record, I just repeated the installation again and this time it worked. The only difference is that on the first time I selected 'Try Ubuntu' then I started the harddisk installation while on the second I chose to install on the harddisk right from the beginning.

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote : Traceback

Exception during installation:
Oct 28 00:44:35 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Oct 28 00:44:35 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1641, in <module>
Oct 28 00:44:35 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Oct 28 00:44:35 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
Oct 28 00:44:35 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Oct 28 00:44:35 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 199, in run
Oct 28 00:44:35 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.configure_bootloader()
Oct 28 00:44:35 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 955, in configure_bootloader
Oct 28 00:44:35 ubuntu plugininstall.py: "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
Oct 28 00:44:35 ubuntu plugininstall.py: InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1
Oct 28 00:44:35 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

tags: added: installer-crash
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