[Bug 849817] Re: Installation in VMWare environment

[Brian Murray]

@Matt - actually there is sufficient information to start working on
this bug report.

In the syslog file we have at least one traceback from the installer:
Sep 14 09:55:01 ubuntu install.py: Exception during installation:
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 632, in <module>
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py:     install.run()
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 124, in run
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py:     self.copy_all()
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 358, in copy_all
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py:     for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(self.source):
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py:   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 294, in walk
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py:     for x in walk(new_path, topdown, onerror, followlinks):
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py:   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 294, in walk
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py:     for x in walk(new_path, topdown, onerror, followlinks):
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py:   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 294, in walk
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py:     for x in walk(new_path, topdown, onerror, followlinks):
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py:   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 292, in walk
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py:     new_path = join(top, name)
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py:   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 66, in join
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py:     if b.startswith('/'):
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: AttributeError: 'frame' object has no attribute 'startswith'
Sep 14 09:55:02 ubuntu install.py: 
Sep 14 07:55:09 ubuntu kernel: [ 4710.133251] install.py[12544]: segfault at 5 ip 0812d418 sp bfd750a0 error 4 in python2.7[8048000+223000]

Further back there is a kernel oops and before that we see what is
likely the root of the problem:

Sep 14 06:40:47 ubuntu kernel: [  248.163230] JFS: nTxBlock = 1948, nTxLock = 15591
Sep 14 06:40:48 ubuntu kernel: [  248.477473] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block/inode numbers, no debug enabled
Sep 14 06:40:48 ubuntu kernel: [  248.511010] SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Sep 14 06:40:48 ubuntu kernel: [  248.852469] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Sep 14 06:40:48 ubuntu kernel: [  248.872751] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Sep 14 06:40:53 ubuntu kernel: [  253.971929] EXT4-fs (sdb1): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem
Sep 14 06:40:53 ubuntu kernel: [  253.971963] EXT4-fs (sdb1): write access unavailable, cannot proceed
Sep 14 06:40:53 ubuntu ubiquity: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
Sep 14 06:40:53 ubuntu ubiquity:        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
Sep 14 06:40:53 ubuntu ubiquity: 
Sep 14 06:40:53 ubuntu ubiquity:        Manchmal liefert das Syslog wertvolle Informationen – versuchen
Sep 14 06:40:53 ubuntu ubiquity:        Sie  dmesg | tail  oder so
Sep 14 06:40:53 ubuntu ubiquity: 

It seems to be like there is an issue with filesystems on /dev/sdb which
is blocking the install and causing the crash.


** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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Title:
  Installation in VMWare environment

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Crashes during installation in VWWare 7.1.4

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.7.28
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.17-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.283
  Date: Wed Sep 14 11:14:17 2011
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110913)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_CH.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=de_CH.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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