Ubiquity crashes during install

[Justin W. Hart]

Oh, here's the entries from /var/syslog

Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]:   File
"/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity",
 line 524, in <module>
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]:     main(oem_config)
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]:   File
"/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity",
 line 511, in main
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]:     install(query=options.query)
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]:   File
"/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity",
 line 242, in install
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]:     ret = wizard.run()
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]:   File
"/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/front
end/gtk_ui.py", line 513, in run
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]:     self.process_step()
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]:   File
"/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/front
end/gtk_ui.py", line 1179, in process_step
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]:     self.progress_loop()
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]:   File
"/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/front
end/gtk_ui.py", line 1062, in progress_loop
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]:     (ret, realtb))
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]: RuntimeError: Install failed with
exit c
ode 1
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]:   File
"/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py",
 line 2566, in <module>
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]:     install.run()
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]:   File
"/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py",
 line 353, in run
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]:     self.copy_all()
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]:   File
"/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py",
 line 685, in copy_all
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]:     assert os.path.exists(fs_size),
"Mis
sing filesystem.size."
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]: AssertionError: Missing
filesystem.size.
Aug  4 15:24:30 bender ubiquity[19879]:
Aug  4 15:25:02 bender ubiquity[19879]: last message repeated 2 times


Justin

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Justin W. Hart <justin.hart at yale.edu> wrote:

> I got a new hard drive and want to put a fresh install on it.
>  Unfortunately, I can't because Ubiquity crashes.  It gets to the point
> where it says "copying new operating system files" and then goes boom.
>  Running it on the command line shows no error messages or logs that I can
> see either.
>
> Justin
>
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