[Bug 1014575] Re: ubiquity crash after installing grub in virtualbox

[melchiaros]

Hi Matt,

I hope ubiquity(the installer) has not rendered your system unbootable.

I have just red the story that syslog try to tell me. As far as I can
see ubiquity has trouble to allocate memory as you can see for example
here:

Jun 18 09:52:21 ubuntu plugininstall.py: OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot
allocate memory

It has tried it tree times and give finally up. That is the cause for
the cascading exceptions.

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So interpretion of this may be a wrong allocate line in ubiquity itself,
not enough harddisk memory(seems to be apt cache - package storage
before install of it), or simple a defect RAM.

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Because this report is dated to 18-6-2012 and the program versions have changed, are you willing to do a simple retest of this issue with the latest program versions.

We have for this daily builds which incorporate them. You can find them
here:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

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A helpfull tool for simple work with checksums for download validity is
a firefox extension called downthemall.

On download you can choose sha256 instead of simple MD5.

Thank you in advance

melchiaros

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Title:
  ubiquity crash - ubuntu plugininstall.py: OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot
  allocate memory

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Crash just after running update-grub

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.11.5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-5.11-generic 3.4.0
  Uname: Linux 3.4.0-5-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.1.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.317
  Date: Mon Jun 18 10:53:04 2012
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120606.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
   TERM=unknown
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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