[Bug 1493550] Re: Ubuntu 14.10(?) Install Just Crashed

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Exception during installation:
Sep  8 19:31:40 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Sep  8 19:31:40 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: 


** Tags added: installer-crash

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Title:
  Ubuntu 14.10(?) Install Just Crashed

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I downloaded the iso and put it on CVC awhile back.  I was running
  14.04 just fine, but did an update today, and saw messages in the
  terminal window that Gtk2 was not installed.  I could not find a way
  to install Gtk2 or Gtk3 separately.

  So I decide to just delete the system files using a LiveCD by going
  into Try, mounting the target partition, using "sudo -1", and "rm -r
  /media/ubuntu/sda2/[!h]* "to wipe everything other than /home and my
  user account.

  Then when I chose to install Ubuntu, I chose "Something Else",
  targeted sda2 for root (but no format)/  While it was installing, I
  brought up Firefox and was looking at an article on doing an install
  from an iso image on the hard drive.  Reason?  Because I had lable the
  DVD "Ubuntu 15.10", but the installer told me I was actually
  installing 14.10/  I'd get this install done, I was going to move up,
  but I had no more DVDs on hand to burn to.

  And the install crashed.  So that's it.

  I was going to have to clean the drive first, because in a previous
  effort, the LiveCD installer tried to restore packages that had been
  added after the install.  Problem was, the previous version was
  32-bit, and the new install was 64-bit, so the install got messed up,
  and I had to do it all over.  That's when I came up with using "rm -r
  .../[!h]*" as a ways around that.  The alternative is to use "cp -rfp
  ... /home [target drive]", tnen copy it all back later.

  LiveCD should include a choice of uprgrading {(or replacing} an existing install, and make the appropriate choices, like:
  (1)  Choice of partition to install to
  (2)  Whether to keep existing accounts or not
  (3)   What packegest need to be added to bring it back to where the old install had been, and do these as well
  (4)  The option to simply upgrade the existing install, or start fresh, but use the same partitions, but only reformat the one(s) that were part of the earlier install configuration.
  (5)  Or the choice to add this install to existing installs by first subdividing the hard drive, which can have manual resizing elections.

  I mean, after all, we are in the age of terabyte drives, and a whole
  terabyte for a single install is overkill.  You could support 3, 4,
  even five installs in that much space, and have plenty of drive room
  left over.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-25.33-generic 3.16.7
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-25-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu10
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.346
  Date: Tue Sep  8 14:32:02 2015
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha i386 (20141213)
  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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