Thanks for you reply Colin,
After several attempts of installing Ubuntu and Kbuntu from CD and DVD
media, I have found that the probable cause
for this bug to arise is in the way drive partitioning works and how the
information is kept in ram during execution of the install script.
This error after many various install attempts seems to only arise it
the drive being partitioned is not a clean drive - ie. you are
formatting using the manual option and wish to preserve one or more
partitions and simply remount them. My steps for a 3 partitioned drive
were as follows:
1. Choose manual partition method.
2. Select the desired partition as for /
3. Format it (in my case this was Ext3.
4. Select the next partition (in my case this was /swap)
5. Select next partition and choose mount point (in my case this
was FAT32 and mounted as /ResourceStore).
6. Apply partitioning process for the above partitions and
proceed with installation script.
The above sequence has worked, with success, for me over 4 times for the
CD iso's (Desktop and Server) and the DVD iso - from text startup and
graphical startup. I would like to mention that during the graphical
install - with a manual partitioning but no formatting of the drives
that there is no option for the bootloader - this seems to be only
available when the drive partitions have been formatted. There is no
option to replace the bootloader otherwise within the install script.
So a malformed bootloader would suggest corrupted ram allocation of
partitions during install and first-run of the installation process.
I hope that my experience with this bug as described above provides some
light into this problem and helps in refining the install script for
future avoidance.
Regards
Pran. Asodia
Colin Watson wrote:
> This code is in apt. I have no idea why it might fall over like that
> (SIGBUS suggests bad RAM, though - have you checked that?).
>
> ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: ubiquity => apt
>
> ** Visibility changed to: Public
>
>
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install.py crashed with signal 7 in std::basic_ostringstream<char,
std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::~basic_ostringstream()
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/314705
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