[Bug 1040033] Re: Fresh VM install via preseeded oneiric iso failed

[Jamie Strandboge]

This is in UbiquitySyslog.txt:
Aug 21 22:12:59 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
Aug 21 22:12:59 ubuntu ubiquity:  files list file for package 'dnsmasq-base' is missing final newline
Aug 21 22:12:59 ubuntu ubiquity: Error in function: 
Aug 21 22:12:59 ubuntu ubiquity: 
Aug 21 22:12:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Exception during installation:
Aug 21 22:12:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Aug 21 22:12:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: 

It is odd that this sometimes doesn't fail

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Title:
  Fresh VM install via preseeded oneiric iso failed

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The security team, et al uses lp:ubuntu-qa-tools/vm-tools/uvt to
  create new VM images by using an ISO, then updating it with preseed
  information so we may perform unattended VM installs. Before ubiquity
  finishes installation, 11.10 amd64 (and possibly i386, but haven't
  verified yet) sometimes fails.

  Here are the contents of preseed/vmtools.seed:
  ubiquity	languagechooser/language-name	select	English
  ubiquity	countrychooser/shortlist	select	US
  ubiquity	time/zone	select	America/Chicago
  ubiquity	debian-installer/locale	select	en_US.UTF-8
  ubiquity	localechooser/supported-locales	multiselect	en_US.UTF-8
  console-setup	console-setup/layoutcode	string	us
  console-setup	console-setup/layout	select	U.S. English
  console-setup	console-setup/variantcode	select	U.S. English
  console-setup	console-setup/codeset	select	. Combined - Latin; Slavic Cyrillic; Hebrew; basic Arabic
  ubiquity	partman-auto/init_automatically_partition	select	Guided - use entire disk
  ubiquity	partman-auto/disk	string	/dev/vda
  ubiquity	partman-auto/method	string	regular
  ubiquity	partman-auto/choose_recipe	select	All files in one partition (recommended for new users)
  ubiquity	partman/confirm_write_new_label	boolean	true
  ubiquity	partman/choose_partition	select	Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
  ubiquity	partman/confirm	boolean	true
  ubiquity	passwd/user-fullname	string	REDACTED
  user-setup	passwd/user-fullname	string	REDACTED
  ubiquity	passwd/username	string	REDACTED
  user-setup	passwd/username	string	REDACTED
  ubiquity	passwd/user-password password REDACTED
  ubiquity	passwd/user-password-again password REDACTED
  user-setup	passwd/user-password password REDACTED
  user-setup	passwd/user-password-again password REDACTED
  d-i		netcfg/get_hostname	string	vmtools
  d-i		netcfg/get_domain	string	defaultdomain
  ubiquity	migration-assistant/partitions	multiselect
  ubiquity	ubiquity/summary	note
  ubiquity	ubiquity/reboot	string	true
  d-i             mirror/http/proxy       string
  ubiquity	ubiquity/success_command	string	cp /cdrom/preseed/latecommand.sh /target/root/; chroot /target chmod +x /root/latecommand.sh; chroot /target bash /root/latecommand.sh;

  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 x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.287
  Date: Wed Aug 22 06:49:51 2012
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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