[Bug 1417376] Re: installer crashed part way through Ub 14.04

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

There are also some errors about efivars and the disk itself; how did
you boot the system? Did you see a graphical boot menu, or one just in
text, surrounded by a white border?

Feb  3 04:47:31 ubuntu ubiquity: Can't access efivars filesystem at /sys/firmware/efi/efivars, aborting
[...]
Feb  3 04:47:32 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
Feb  3 04:47:32 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy
Feb  3 04:47:32 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install  --force
Feb  3 04:47:32 ubuntu grub-installer: Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Feb  3 04:47:32 ubuntu grub-installer: Installation finished. No error reported.
Feb  3 04:47:32 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install ran successfully
Feb  3 04:47:32 ubuntu ubiquity: Can't read partition table from /dev/sda
Feb  3 04:47:33 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: log-output -t ubiquity umount /target/cdrom
Feb  3 04:47:33 ubuntu finish-install: Disabling CD in sources.list
Feb  3 04:47:33 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: Exception during installation:
Feb  3 04:47:33 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb  3 04:47:33 ubuntu /plugininstall.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1770, in <module>
Feb  3 04:47:33 ubuntu /plugininstall.py:     install.run()
Feb  3 04:47:33 ubuntu /plugininstall.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 78, in wrapper
Feb  3 04:47:33 ubuntu /plugininstall.py:     func(self)
Feb  3 04:47:33 ubuntu /plugininstall.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 241, in run
Feb  3 04:47:33 ubuntu /plugininstall.py:     self.configure_bootloader()
Feb  3 04:47:33 ubuntu /plugininstall.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1026, in configure_bootloader
Feb  3 04:47:33 ubuntu /plugininstall.py:     "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
Feb  3 04:47:33 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: ubiquity.install_misc.InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1

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Title:
  installer crashed part way through Ub 14.04

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  About 75% of the way through the installation the installer reported
  an unknown error and exited the process.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.18.8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.340
  Date: Mon Feb  2 22:47:41 2015
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed cdrom-detect/try-usb=true noprompt floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0 ignore_uuid boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=linux
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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