[Bug 1312586] Re: Default 14.04 server installation fails with error 'busybox-intramfs cannot be installed'

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

This appears to be caused (at least, as reported to me by Marc
Deslauriers) by stray files left over from a previous Desktop image copy
on the USB drive; if it has not been formatted before writing the Server
image files to the drive.

If you're seeing this issue and are able to reproduce it easily with
your USB drive, please see if you have a "casper" directory on the USB
drive, if that drive has been configured to contain a server
installation image. The casper directory can be removed from a USB drive
if it's meant to be used to install the Ubuntu Server (and only Ubuntu
Server; the Ubuntu Desktop installer *requires* that directory and will
fail if it's not there).

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Title:
  Default 14.04 server installation fails with error 'busybox-intramfs
  cannot be installed'

Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I tried to install using the official Ubuntu 14.04 server installation
  image. In the installation I selected as partition layout LVM with
  automatic partitioning. User details and other input didn't have
  anything special. At the end to the copying files to disk -stage the
  process stopped with the error message "Package busybox-intramfs
  cannot be installed".

  I've attached real screenshots of the error message and the output on
  console 4, which indicate that the root cause was in the base-install
  or in-target stages.

  I rebooted the machine and started the installation from scratch, and
  it stopped in the same result. Thus this seems like a repeatable bug
  and worth filing.

  As I was unable to get the installation done using the server image I
  installed Lubuntu. Using Lubuntu I also selected as partition layout
  LVM with automatic partitioning. Lubuntu installation finished
  successfully, so this bug does not affect Ubiquity or other parts of
  LVM nor did it have anything to do with hardware or other parts of
  Ubuntu. I've also checked the MD5 on the installation image that it
  was not corrupt.

  I'd love to help but unfortunately I cannot re-install this machine or
  access it's logs again, so I can't do more debugging.

  Bug #1117292 seems similar, but in my case the installation failed
  out-of-the-box, installation was not preseeded and it was not random
  but repeatable.

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