[Bug 136444] Re: Kubuntu install failed: "Read-only file system: '/target/usr/share/locale-langpack/nl/LC_MESSAGES'"

[Colin Watson]

** Summary changed:

- Kubuntu install failed
+ Kubuntu install failed: "Read-only file system: '/target/usr/share/locale-langpack/nl/LC_MESSAGES'"

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Title:
  Kubuntu install failed: "Read-only file system: '/target/usr/share
  /locale-langpack/nl/LC_MESSAGES'"

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity-frontend-kde

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 130, in ?
      install(sys.argv[1])
    File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 55, in install
      ret = wizard.run()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 310, in run
      self.process_step()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 750, in process_step
      self.mountpoints_to_summary()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 1130, in mountpoints_to_summary
      self.progress_loop()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 538, in progress_loop
      raise RuntimeError, ("Install failed with exit code %s\n%s" %
  RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1263, in ?
      if install.run():
    File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 284, in run
      if not self.copy_all():
    File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 455, in copy_all
      os.mkdir(targetpath, mode)
  OSError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/target/usr/share/locale-langpack/nl/LC_MESSAGES'

  I've looked at many other reports with nearly identical error
  messages, but none have had my second error message afterwards.  In
  case it helps, this is how the error occurred:  I installed Kubuntu
  6.06 on the first of two HD's in my system, manually partitioning; the
  second drive I left with one NTFS partition.  The drive failed (rather
  catastrophically), so I decided to reinstall Kubuntu on the second
  drive, eliminating the NTFS partition.  During the partitioning step
  in installation, I noticed that the first (crashed) drive showed an
  empty table (not unpartitioned, not an empty partition, but NO TABLE)!
  I could not modify this first drive in any way.  So, I continued with
  the partitioning of the second drive and install.  Near the end of
  copying files, the above error report appeared.  Please tell me I
  didn't just lose the second drive as well!

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