This appears to have been a case of a broken disk drive or controller:
[ 274.821740] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x7fff SErr 0x40
action 0x6 frozen
[ 274.821751] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x0800, interface fatal error
[ 274.821760] ata1: SError: { Handshk }
[ 274.821768] ata1.00: f
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => New
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => ari (aririfkidham)
** Description changed:
Crashed while installing
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.10.16
ProcVersionSign
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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>From the syslog file we see:
May 18 03:42:46 ubuntu ubiquity: E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 0
May 18 03:42:46 ubuntu ubiquity: update-initramfs: failed for
/boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic with 1.
May 18 03:42:46 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools
(--purge):
May 18
Exception during installation:
May 18 03:42:48 ubuntu plugininstall.py: SystemError: E:Sub-process
/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
May 18 03:42:48 ubuntu plugininstall.py:
** Tags added: installer-crash
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
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