[Bug 933433] Re: Kubuntu manual install crashed during bootloader configuration with Python stacktrace

Andrew McDonnell bugs at andrewmcdonnell.net
Thu Feb 16 12:38:35 UTC 2012


output from fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa0a504ce

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         784     6297448+  12  Compaq diagnostics
/dev/sda2   *         785       14267   108295168    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           14267       15969    13670401    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           14267       15726    11717632   83  Linux
/dev/sda6           15726       15969     1951744   82  Linux swap / Solaris

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Title:
  Kubuntu manual install crashed during bootloader configuration with
  Python stacktrace

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Reported error was "ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base
  10: '' " - a very old Ubiquity bug 42774 has same message but stack
  trace was completely different at a different point.

  Cause:

  1. Start Kubuntu CD, select 'Install' from the CD menu
  2. Do a manual partition. Drive has NTFS XP at sda2 with a rescue NTFS at sda1 and 40GB free space
  3. Added 12G XFS partition at sda5 and swap at sda6
  4. Set to install bootloader to sda5
  5. Installer progressed and copied files then died with the following stack trace on the 'Configuring Bootloader' screen

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 524, in <module>
      main(oem_config)
    File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 511, in main
      install(query=options.query)
    File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 242, in install
      ret = wizard.run()
    File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_ui.py", line 460, in run
      self.progress_loop()
    File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_ui.py", line 863, in progress_loop
      (ret, realtb))
  RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 2566, in <module>
      install.run()
    File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 418, in run
      self.configure_bootloader()
    File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1681, in configure_bootloader
      self.db.input('critical', bootdev)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 65, in <lambda>
      lambda *args, **kw: self.command(command, *args, **kw))
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 86, in command
      status = int(status)
  ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

  
  Digression: I should have made /boot at sda3 primary partition which would have allowed me to copy the first 512 bytes of sda3 to a bin file to chain from the XP bootloader.

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