[Bug 475047] Re: During install from Live CD 9.10 to existing 9.04 partitions, grub failed to install on hd0

[Brian Murray]

** Tags added: grubinstaller-failure-1

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Title:
  During install from Live CD 9.10 to existing 9.04 partitions, grub
  failed to install on hd0

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  Installation of 9.10 over 9.04 from the LIve CD, without formatting the existing partitions. Existing partitions used for exactly the same purpose, eg. /var = /var
  Grub failed to install on hd0

  Install exits, not sure if it is successful, have not rebooted yet.

  ProblemType: Crash
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Nov  5 11:58:25 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
  LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
  Package: ubiquity 2.0.6
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity gtk_ui
  ProcEnviron: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/proc/7119/environ'
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', 'gtk_ui']
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  Title: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_bootloader()
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
  UserGroups:
   
  XsessionErrors:
   (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:6791): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
   (xfce4-mixer-plugin:6838): libxfce4mixer-CRITICAL **: xfce_mixer_get_track: assertion `GST_IS_MIXER (card)' failed
   (xfce4-terminal:6868): Terminal-WARNING **: Unable to load terminal preferences.

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