[Bug 1301140] Re: installer crashes trying to overwrite something, both on fresh install and upgrading from 13.10

[Seth Arnold]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
to be a "regular" (non-security) bug.  I have unmarked it as a security
issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy.
Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

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Title:
  installer crashes trying to overwrite something, both on fresh install
  and upgrading from 13.10

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I first tried installing the daily build over my installation of
  13.10, but it failed saying that it couldn't overwrite /etc/console-
  setup/compose.VISCII.inc , and then I rebooted and tried again, this
  time installing it fresh and it crashed at the same spot.

  /var/log/syslog:
  http://pastebin.com/CT0UJLik

  /var/log/partman:
  http://pastebin.com/e71Ww7i1

  It may help to know that partition sda1 is/was my current installation
  of Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 with the home folder, and I just recently copied
  my home folder to sda3 to use as my separate home folder partition,
  while sda2 is and always has been used for swap.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.17.10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-20.42-generic 3.13.7
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-20-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.339
  Date: Wed Apr  2 00:32:53 2014
  InstallCmdLine: initrd=/casper/initrd.lz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-gnome.seed boot=casper  quiet splash -- BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Daily amd64 (20140401)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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