[Bug 1799489] Re: Installing Cosmic in a VM crashed in the installer

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

I'm not sure this was a network problem:

Oct 23 14:50:16 ubuntu /install.py: Exception during installation:
Oct 23 14:50:16 ubuntu /install.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Oct 23 14:50:16 ubuntu /install.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 765, in <module>
Oct 23 14:50:16 ubuntu /install.py:     install.run()
Oct 23 14:50:16 ubuntu /install.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 135, in run
Oct 23 14:50:16 ubuntu /install.py:     self.copy_all()
Oct 23 14:50:16 ubuntu /install.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 477, in copy_all
Oct 23 14:50:16 ubuntu /install.py:     self.db, sourcepath, targetpath, md5_check)
Oct 23 14:50:16 ubuntu /install.py:   File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/install_misc.py", line 782, in copy_file
Oct 23 14:50:16 ubuntu /install.py:     db.subst(error_template, 'FILE', targetpath)
Oct 23 14:50:16 ubuntu /install.py:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 83, in <lambda>
Oct 23 14:50:16 ubuntu /install.py:     lambda *args, **kw: self.command(command, *args, **kw))
Oct 23 14:50:16 ubuntu /install.py:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 104, in command
Oct 23 14:50:16 ubuntu /install.py:     status = int(status)
Oct 23 14:50:16 ubuntu /install.py: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
Oct 23 14:50:16 ubuntu /install.py: 
Oct 23 14:51:01 ubuntu /install.py: Terminated ubiquity update process.


That's debconf complaining, and install.py is responsible for some sanity-checking of the install (keeping the right packages, copying files from the squashfs to make the final filesystem, etc.).

Was the install bootable afterwards?

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Installing Cosmic in a VM crashed in the installer

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I was installing Cosmic today from the official download and the
  installer crashed.

  I installed it dozens of times last week and there were no crashes.

  Using Virtualbox, with 1.7GB RAM.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
  Package: ubiquity 18.10.12
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-10.11-generic 4.18.12
  Uname: Linux 4.18.0-10-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.399
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Tue Oct 23 08:55:09 2018
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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