[Bug 899082] Re: Lubuntu installer crashed near the end of the installation

[RüdiCoerdt]

Wow, I thought this had gone down the drain long time ago, thanks for coming back to it. I don't recall exactly what was the case by 
then, but I usually use a symbolic link so all the OSs installed on my machine use the same directory on a separate file system. I 
solved the case by myself (and I guess/hope I mentioned it in the bug, not sure...) by renaming the directory/link; the installation 
went through then.

Still my biggest concern was and is the state of the installation after the crash - usable or not. This was not clear when the error 
occurred, and the error messages did not help. Proposal would be to make that snippet of the inst process a bit more stable.

Thanks again
Rüdiger


On 02/16/2012 12:01 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> Normally adduser would handle this fine.  Is it possible that
> /home/coerdtr is a symbolic link, e.g. to an encrypted filesystem
> somewhere?  That would be an edge case here, I think.
>
> ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
>     Importance: Undecided =>  High
>
> ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
>         Status: Confirmed =>  Triaged
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - Lubuntu installer crashed near the end of the installation
> + Couldn't create home directory: File exists
>

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Title:
  Couldn't create home directory: File exists

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Sorry to call this a new bug as there were several similar older bugs
  offered to choose from, yet I don't know if they're identical. I'm not
  sure where in the process the crash occurred and if the rudimentary
  installation is usable at all.

  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: Fri Dec  2 12:04:38 2011
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 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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