contents of /var/log/installer/syslog, also forgot to mention, this is dapper rc. Ubiquity 1.0.7 Sat, 27 May 2006 01:37:42 INFO switched to page stepLanguage ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/localechooser']' for ubiquity.components.language.Language ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^languagechooser/language-name Sat, 27 May 2006 01:37:50 INFO Step_before = stepLanguage Sat, 27 May 2006 01:37:50 INFO switched to page stepLocation Sat, 27 May 2006 01:37:50 INFO Step_after = stepLocation ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$ Sat, 27 May 2006 01:37:55 INFO Step_before = stepLocation Sat, 27 May 2006 01:37:55 INFO switched to page stepKeyboardConf Sat, 27 May 2006 01:37:55 INFO Step_after = stepKeyboardConf ubiquity: kbd-chooser prepare ubiquity: Starting up '['/bin/sh', '-c', '. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule; exec /usr/lib/ubiquity/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser']' for ubiquity.components.kbd_chooser.KbdChooser ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^kbd-chooser/method$, ^console-keymaps.*/keymap$, ERROR ubiquity: apply_keyboard: us ubiquity: apply_keyboard: layout us, model pc104 ubiquity: Display map: {u'Swedish': u'se-latin1', u'Icelandic': u'is-latin1', u'Estonian': u'et', u'Romanian': u'ro', u'Italian': u'it', u'Latin American': u'la-latin1', u'Dutch': u'nl', u'Brazilian (EUA layout)': u'br-latin1', u'Belgian': u'be2-latin1', u'Danish': u'dk-latin1', u'Bulgarian': u'bg', u'Turkish (F layout)': u'trfu', u'Hungarian': u'hu', u'Macedonian': u'mk', u'Lithuanian': u'lt', u'French': u'fr-latin9', u'Norwegian': u'no-latin1', u'Slovakian': u'sk-qwerty', u'Russian': u'ru', u'Dvorak': u'dvorak', u'Slovene': u'slovene', u'Finnish': u'fi-latin1', u'British English': u'uk', u'Spanish': u'es', u'Greek': u'gr', u'Canadian French': u'cf', u'Latvian': u'lv-latin4', u'American English': u'us', u'Croatian': u'croat', u'Portuguese': u'pt-latin1', u'Czech': u'cz-lat2', u'Ukrainian': u'ua', u'Japanese': u'jp106', u'Belarusian': u'by', u'Turkish (Q layout)': u'trqu', u'German': u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'Hebrew': u'hebrew', u'Polish': u'pl', u'Brazilian (ABNT2 layout)': u'br-abnt2', u'Swiss French': u'fr_CH-latin1', u'Swiss German': u'sg-latin1', u'Serbian (Cyrillic)': u'sr-cy'} ubiquity: Untranslated choices: [u'by', u'bg', u'croat', u'cz-lat2', u'sg-latin1', u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'dk-latin1', u'us', u'uk', u'dvorak', u'et', u'es', u'la-latin1', u'fi-latin1', u'fr-latin9', u'be2-latin1', u'cf', u'fr_CH-latin1', u'gr', u'hebrew', u'hu', u'is-latin1', u'it', u'lt', u'lv-latin4', u'jp106', u'mk', u'no-latin1', u'nl', u'pl', u'pt-latin1', u'br-abnt2', u'br-latin1', u'ro', u'ru', u'sk-qwerty', u'slovene', u'sr-cy', u'se-latin1', u'trfu', u'trqu', u'ua'] ubiquity: Choices: [u'Belarusian', u'Bulgarian', u'Croatian', u'Czech', u'Swiss German', u'German', u'Danish', u'American English', u'British English', u'Dvorak', u'Estonian', u'Spanish', u'Latin American', u'Finnish', u'French', u'Belgian', u'Canadian French', u'Swiss French', u'Greek', u'Hebrew', u'Hungarian', u'Icelandic', u'Italian', u'Lithuanian', u'Latvian', u'Japanese', u'Macedonian', u'Norwegian', u'Dutch', u'Polish', u'Portuguese', u'Brazilian (ABNT2 layout)', u'Brazilian (EUA layout)', u'Romanian', u'Russian', u'Slovakian', u'Slovene', u'Serbian (Cyrillic)', u'Swedish', u'Turkish (F layout)', u'Turkish (Q layout)', u'Ukrainian'] ubiquity: console-keymaps-at/keymap db: us Sat, 27 May 2006 01:37:57 INFO switched to page stepLocation ubiquity: ['/bin/sh', '-c', '. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule; exec /usr/lib/ubiquity/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser'] exited with code 10 ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$ Sat, 27 May 2006 01:38:02 INFO Step_before = stepLocation Sat, 27 May 2006 01:38:02 INFO switched to page stepKeyboardConf Sat, 27 May 2006 01:38:02 INFO Step_after = stepKeyboardConf ubiquity: kbd-chooser prepare ubiquity: Starting up '['/bin/sh', '-c', '. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule; exec /usr/lib/ubiquity/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser']' for ubiquity.components.kbd_chooser.KbdChooser ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^kbd-chooser/method$, ^console-keymaps.*/keymap$, ERROR ubiquity: apply_keyboard: us ubiquity: apply_keyboard: layout us, model pc104 ubiquity: Display map: {u'Swedish': u'se-latin1', u'Icelandic': u'is-latin1', u'Estonian': u'et', u'Romanian': u'ro', u'Italian': u'it', u'Latin American': u'la-latin1', u'Dutch': u'nl', u'Brazilian (EUA layout)': u'br-latin1', u'Belgian': u'be2-latin1', u'Danish': u'dk-latin1', u'Bulgarian': u'bg', u'Turkish (F layout)': u'trfu', u'Hungarian': u'hu', u'Macedonian': u'mk', u'Lithuanian': u'lt', u'French': u'fr-latin9', u'Norwegian': u'no-latin1', u'Slovakian': u'sk-qwerty', u'Russian': u'ru', u'Dvorak': u'dvorak', u'Slovene': u'slovene', u'Finnish': u'fi-latin1', u'British English': u'uk', u'Spanish': u'es', u'Greek': u'gr', u'Canadian French': u'cf', u'Latvian': u'lv-latin4', u'American English': u'us', u'Croatian': u'croat', u'Portuguese': u'pt-latin1', u'Czech': u'cz-lat2', u'Ukrainian': u'ua', u'Japanese': u'jp106', u'Belarusian': u'by', u'Turkish (Q layout)': u'trqu', u'German': u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'Hebrew': u'hebrew', u'Polish': u'pl', u'Brazilian (ABNT2 layout)': u'br-abnt2', u'Swiss French': u'fr_CH-latin1', u'Swiss German': u'sg-latin1', u'Serbian (Cyrillic)': u'sr-cy'} ubiquity: Untranslated choices: [u'by', u'bg', u'croat', u'cz-lat2', u'sg-latin1', u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'dk-latin1', u'us', u'uk', u'dvorak', u'et', u'es', u'la-latin1', u'fi-latin1', u'fr-latin9', u'be2-latin1', u'cf', u'fr_CH-latin1', u'gr', u'hebrew', u'hu', u'is-latin1', u'it', u'lt', u'lv-latin4', u'jp106', u'mk', u'no-latin1', u'nl', u'pl', u'pt-latin1', u'br-abnt2', u'br-latin1', u'ro', u'ru', u'sk-qwerty', u'slovene', u'sr-cy', u'se-latin1', u'trfu', u'trqu', u'ua'] ubiquity: Choices: [u'Belarusian', u'Bulgarian', u'Croatian', u'Czech', u'Swiss German', u'German', u'Danish', u'American English', u'British English', u'Dvorak', u'Estonian', u'Spanish', u'Latin American', u'Finnish', u'French', u'Belgian', u'Canadian French', u'Swiss French', u'Greek', u'Hebrew', u'Hungarian', u'Icelandic', u'Italian', u'Lithuanian', u'Latvian', u'Japanese', u'Macedonian', u'Norwegian', u'Dutch', u'Polish', u'Portuguese', u'Brazilian (ABNT2 layout)', u'Brazilian (EUA layout)', u'Romanian', u'Russian', u'Slovakian', u'Slovene', u'Serbian (Cyrillic)', u'Swedish', u'Turkish (F layout)', u'Turkish (Q layout)', u'Ukrainian'] ubiquity: console-keymaps-at/keymap db: us Sat, 27 May 2006 01:38:06 INFO Step_before = stepKeyboardConf Sat, 27 May 2006 01:38:06 INFO switched to page stepUserInfo Sat, 27 May 2006 01:38:06 INFO Step_after = stepUserInfo ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/user-setup/user-setup-ask', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.usersetup.UserSetup ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^passwd/user-fullname$, ^passwd/username$, ^passwd/user-password$, ^passwd/user-password-again$, ERROR ON STATE: 1 ON STATE: 2 ON STATE: 3 ON STATE: 4 ON STATE: 5 ON STATE: 6 ON STATE: 7 ON STATE: 8 Sat, 27 May 2006 01:38:30 INFO Step_before = stepUserInfo Sat, 27 May 2006 01:38:30 INFO switched to page stepPartDisk Sat, 27 May 2006 01:38:30 INFO Step_after = stepPartDisk ubiquity: Starting up '/bin/partman' for ubiquity.components.partman.Partman ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^partman-auto/select_disk$, ^partman-auto/.*automatically_partition$, ^partman-partitioning/new_size$, ^partman/choose_partition$, ^partman/confirm.*, type:boolean, ERROR, PROGRESS unsupported kernelmodules_basicfilesystems kernelmodules_ext3 kernelmodules_jfs kernelmodules_reiserfs kernelmodules_xfs umount_target parted dump update_partitions filesystems_detected auto_mountpoints autouse_swap backup Sat, 27 May 2006 01:38:38 INFO switched to page stepPartAuto ubiquity: /bin/partman exited with code 10 Sat, 27 May 2006 01:38:48 INFO Step_before = stepPartAuto Sat, 27 May 2006 01:38:48 INFO gparted_loop() Sat, 27 May 2006 01:38:48 INFO switched to page stepPartAdvanced Sat, 27 May 2006 01:38:48 INFO Step_after = stepPartAdvanced Error: Incorrect magic values in the journal header. Warning: Unable to open /dev/hda read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/hda has been opened read-only. Error: Unable to open /dev/hda - unrecognised disk label. Sat, 27 May 2006 01:40:33 INFO Step_before = stepPartAdvanced Sat, 27 May 2006 01:40:39 INFO gparted replied: - FORMAT /dev/sda3 reiserfs Sat, 27 May 2006 01:40:41 INFO gparted replied: - FORMAT /dev/sda4 linux-swap Error: Incorrect magic values in the journal header. Warning: Unable to open /dev/hda read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/hda has been opened read-only. Error: Unable to open /dev/hda - unrecognised disk label. Sat, 27 May 2006 01:40:47 INFO switched to page stepPartMountpoints Sat, 27 May 2006 01:40:47 INFO Step_after = stepPartMountpoints Sat, 27 May 2006 01:40:57 INFO Step_before = stepPartMountpoints Sat, 27 May 2006 01:40:57 INFO mountpoints: {'/dev/sda4': ('swap', True, 'linux-swap'), '/dev/sda1': ('/media/EFI system partition', False, None), '/dev/sda3': ('/', True, 'reiserfs')} Sat, 27 May 2006 01:40:57 INFO Step_after = stepPartMountpoints Sat, 27 May 2006 01:41:05 INFO Step_before = stepPartMountpoints Sat, 27 May 2006 01:41:05 INFO mountpoints: {'/dev/sda4': ('swap', True, 'linux-swap'), '/dev/sda1': ('/media/EFI system partition', False, None), '/dev/sda3': ('/', True, 'reiserfs')} Sat, 27 May 2006 01:41:05 INFO Step_after = stepPartMountpoints Sat, 27 May 2006 01:41:32 INFO Step_before = stepPartMountpoints Sat, 27 May 2006 01:41:32 INFO mountpoints: {'/dev/sda4': ('swap', True, 'linux-swap'), '/dev/sda3': ('/', True, 'reiserfs')} ubiquity: Starting up '/bin/partman' for ubiquity.components.partman_commit.PartmanCommit ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^partman/choose_partition$, ^partman/confirm.*, type:boolean, ERROR, PROGRESS mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/partman': File exists unsupported kernelmodules_basicfilesystems kernelmodules_ext3 kernelmodules_jfs kernelmodules_reiserfs kernelmodules_xfs umount_target parted dump update_partitions filesystems_detected auto_mountpoints autouse_swap backup Sat, 27 May 2006 01:41:36 INFO switched to page stepReady ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/summary']' for ubiquity.components.summary.Summary ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^ubiquity/summary$ swapon: /dev/sda4: Device or resource busy swapon: /dev/sda4: Device or resource busy swapon: /dev/sda4: Device or resource busy swapon: /dev/sda4: Device or resource busy umount /target/ swapoff /dev/sda4 chroot: cannot run command `apt-get': No such file or directory Sat, 27 May 2006 01:42:04 INFO progress_loop() ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py']' for ubiquity.components.install.Install ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^.*/apt-install-failed$, CAPB, ERROR, PROGRESS /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:17: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning) cat: /var/lib/acpi-support/system-manufacturer: No such file or directory cat: /var/lib/acpi-support/system-product-name: No such file or directory cat: /var/lib/acpi-support/system-version: No such file or directory cat: /var/lib/acpi-support/bios-version: No such file or directory ubiquity: Starting up '['sh', '-c', '/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/post-base-installer && /usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/prebaseconfig']' for ubiquity.components.language_apply.LanguageApply Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Skipping locales, it is already installed and upgrade is not set. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... E: Couldn't find package localization-config Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Skipping console-tools, it is already installed and upgrade is not set. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/apt-setup']' for ubiquity.components.apt_setup.AptSetup /usr/lib/ubiquity/apt-setup/generators/01setup: line 7: /target/etc/apt/sources.list: No such file or directory Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com' Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com' Reading package lists... W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com' Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com' Reading package lists... W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com' Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com' Reading package lists... W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com' Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com' Reading package lists... W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Err http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving 'security.ubuntu.com' Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-security/Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving 'security.ubuntu.com' Reading package lists... W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Err http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving 'security.ubuntu.com' Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-security/Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving 'security.ubuntu.com' Reading package lists... W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Err http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving 'security.ubuntu.com' Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-security/Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving 'security.ubuntu.com' Reading package lists... W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Sat, 27 May 2006 01:48:00 INFO keeping language packs for: en Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com' Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com' Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-security/Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving 'security.ubuntu.com' ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/tzsetup/prebaseconfig']' for ubiquity.components.timezone_apply.TimezoneApply ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/clock-setup']' for ubiquity.components.clock_setup.ClockSetup ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/kbd-chooser/prebaseconfig']' for ubiquity.components.kbd_chooser_apply.KbdChooserApply ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/user-setup/user-setup-apply', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.usersetup_apply.UserSetupApply ubiquity: Starting up '['/bin/hw-detect']' for ubiquity.components.hw_detect.HwDetect find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched. find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched. find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched. find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Skipping discover1, it is already installed and upgrade is not set. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Skipping udev, it is already installed and upgrade is not set. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Skipping usbutils, it is already installed and upgrade is not set. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Skipping acpi, it is already installed and upgrade is not set. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Skipping acpid, it is already installed and upgrade is not set. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Sat, 27 May 2006 01:48:50 INFO chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc Sat, 27 May 2006 01:48:50 INFO chroot /target mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys Not touching initrd symlinks since we are being reinstalled (2.6.15-23.39) Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated (2.6.15-23.39) Sat, 27 May 2006 01:49:28 INFO chroot /target dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive linux-image-2.6.15-23-386 Sat, 27 May 2006 01:49:33 INFO chroot /target dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-23-386 Sat, 27 May 2006 01:49:33 INFO chroot /target umount /proc Sat, 27 May 2006 01:49:33 INFO chroot /target umount /sys ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/check-kernels']' for ubiquity.components.check_kernels.CheckKernels Sat, 27 May 2006 01:49:36 INFO mount --bind /proc /target/proc Sat, 27 May 2006 01:49:36 INFO mount --bind /dev /target/dev ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/grub-installer/grub-installer', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.grubinstaller.GrubInstaller Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Skipping grub, it is already installed and upgrade is not set. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. umount: /var/lib/os-prober/mount: device is busy umount: /var/lib/os-prober/mount: device is busy rmdir: /var/lib/os-prober/mount: Device or resource busy rmdir: /var/lib/os-prober/mount: Device or resource busy Sat, 27 May 2006 01:49:55 INFO switched to page stepPartDisk ubiquity: ['/usr/share/grub-installer/grub-installer', '/target'] exited with code 1 Sat, 27 May 2006 01:49:55 INFO umount -f /target/proc Sat, 27 May 2006 01:49:55 INFO umount -f /target/dev ubiquity: ['/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py'] exited with code 1 Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler): Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 120, in ? install(sys.argv[1]) File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 54, in install ret = wizard.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 266, in run self.process_step() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 739, in process_step self.mountpoints_to_summary() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 1020, in mountpoints_to_summary self.progress_loop() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 538, in progress_loop raise RuntimeError, "Install failed with exit code %s" % ret RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1 ubuntu@ubuntu:/var/log/installer$