[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2015-04-28 Thread Joshua Kugler
That may be, and I'll take a look, but when using usb-creator-kde (and I assume other versions as well), it formats the USB drive before it begins any copy process. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2015-04-28 Thread Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
Looks to me like this would be an issue caused by remaining files from other iso images when they are done using usb-creator. If you're running into the server install failing with such errors as "busybox-initramfs" failing to install or other messages saying that "apt-install or in-target are alr

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2015-03-29 Thread Joshua Kugler
Data point: the work-around in comment #22 worked for me too. Systems seems OK so far. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1117292 Title: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a pr

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2015-03-28 Thread Joshua Kugler
I am seeing this in "Ubuntu-Server 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.2)" I will attach my syslog for full analysis. I am not using any preseed, other than the one that comes with the image, and this is from a USB stick created by usb-creator-kde on Kubuntu 14.04. ** Attachment add

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2015-01-22 Thread Finjon Kiang
Also met this issue in both ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso and ubuntu-14.04-server-amd64.iso with USB stick to install. With the workaround from Chris Ball could bypass the issue, but the installor just hanged in another point as attached photo. Finally got it work with ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2015-01-12 Thread Brian Murray
When you say "Startup Disk Creator", do you mean usb-creator-gtk which is included with Ubuntu? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1117292 Title: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' dur

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2015-01-10 Thread Luca Giovenzana
Actually I understood what was wrong in my installation!!! Basically I was reusing the same usb stick I used for a previous Ubuntu installation and the "Startup Disk Creator" application didn't cleared out the usb stick.. so files of two Ubuntu version (14.04 Desktop and Server) were coexisting

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2014-12-01 Thread Tycho Andersen
I've also seen this with 14.04.1; I tried Chris' workaround and the install gets further, but ultimately fails (probably for an unrelated reason). In any case, it is definitely still an issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ub

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2014-10-28 Thread stuart d
Ran into this bug with the 14.04.1 x64 Server installer. Switched to a slower USB drive after reading this thread and was able to install without any issues. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2014-10-17 Thread RR123RR
Chris' trick did allow me to finish installing... Though ubuntu server 14.04.1 now tried to startx, complained about cups [FAIL] on boot and takes up twice the disk space on / than another similar install... Furthermore, trying to dpkg -S some files (say startx, to know why it's there) doesn't gi

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2014-10-04 Thread Andreas
Unfortunately, Chris did not save MY say: I get the same message "unable to install busybox-initramfs" (same text in German). What is going on please? I did not find anything helpful elsewhere. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2014-09-26 Thread zersenser
Same here... Chris Ball saved the day. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1117292 Title: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2014-09-03 Thread costing
Same here, I've tried 14.04 and 14.04.1 and both failed in a similar fashion. +1 for Chris Ball's hack, after a frustrating couple of hours of trying various things, this saved the day. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. h

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2014-08-31 Thread Terence Hong
FWIW - I also had trouble with this on 14.04 LTS. I did 2 things, the latter of which I think is the reason I was able install: 1. Recreated the USB using the startup-disk-creator in Ubuntu itself (not Unetbootin!) 2. Plugged the USB stick into a USB 2 (black) slot, as opposed to USB 3 (blue) -

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2014-08-20 Thread Mike Wilson
Actually I ran into further problems later down including install hanging due to files that needed to be clobbered and then not being able to boot properly. I went back and made the thumb drive image with rufus instead of unetbootin using the same ISO and this time it installed without issues and b

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2014-08-20 Thread Mike Wilson
I saw this installing 14.04 using a usb thumb drive as well. As ugly as it is, Chris Ball's hack got me going. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1117292 Title: 'Unable to install busibux

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2014-07-31 Thread Matthew Lovibond
Also seeing this on 14.04 while using a usb key to install (only a cheap slow usb2 one though). Chris Ball's workaround worked for me though I was almost sick at having to do something this hacky. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2014-07-21 Thread Chris Ball
I'm seeing this too, Ubuntu 14.04 server install on a USB3 key to a 4.4GHz machine. I agree that it looks like a race. You don't need to explain all the ways in which this is probably a terrible idea, but since the current workaround (in #21) is involves upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04 and sounds p

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2014-07-17 Thread Thomas Neumann
This happens to me, too, server installation is currently broken in some settings. This appears to be a bug or a race in the installer logic, as running the apt-get command by hand in a chroot succeeded. So apparently there is not really an error during the underlying package installation, just the

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2014-01-16 Thread fuzzyBSc
I can't say I have a workaround, but I did manage to get my machine built after several hours of trying. After the successful copy of files to the target and the failure to install the subsequent packages I switched to recovery mode, specifying the raid mirror as my root filesystem. In this reco

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2014-01-15 Thread fuzzyBSc
I am seeing this on a 13.10 serer install with UEFI bios. I am installing onto a RAID1 mirror of two intel SSDs. The "copying files" step appears successful but whatever apt commands get run in the target by the installer seem to fail. Apt and dpkg commands run in chroot by hand seem to work. One

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2013-12-13 Thread fejes
Also seeing this on 13.10 server install. Has any progress been made, or is there a work around for this bug yet? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1117292 Title: 'Unable to install bus

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2013-09-13 Thread Pavel FrancĂ­rek
MD5 checksum is another (annoying and ignored) error. See http://askubuntu.com/questions/180218/why-does-integrity-check-fail-for- the-12-04-1-alternate-iso. ** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu) Status: Expired => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a membe

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2013-09-08 Thread Harri Pasanen
Just to doubly sure I copied the symlink targets in place of the symlinks on the usb stick, after which the integrity check passed ok. It does not affect the installation though, still fails as described in the original report. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of U

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2013-09-08 Thread Harri Pasanen
I just ran into this same problem, trying to install 13.04 amd64 server to raid10 root with 4 disks from a usb stick created with usb-creator- kde on kubuntu 13.04 desktop. Verification of the "CD-ROM disc" from the menu fails for the usb stick, but this seems to be bogus. Failed files are md5su

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2013-08-11 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for debian-installer (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchp

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2013-06-12 Thread chconnor
(That CD, incidentally, did pass the "verification" test... since I created the flash drive with two different creators (unetbootin and the KDE tool) and the drive is fine afaik, I suspect either the creation of it or the use of it was triggering that issue.) -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2013-06-12 Thread chconnor
I burned a CD (of the same .iso image) and the installation worked fine. I wonder if there are race conditions in the installer that are only triggered by the speed of the flash-based install? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to U

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2013-06-12 Thread chconnor
Same issue: 13.04 64-bit, ubuntu server. The errors pgoetz reported were actually probably false postives (I see the same thing): http://askubuntu.com/questions/180218/why-does- integrity-check-fail-for-the-12-04-1-alternate-iso ...which makes me wonder what he did that actually solved it. pgoetz

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2013-06-10 Thread Patrick Goetz
So, I ended up in a menu which allowed me to test the bootable USB stick I was trying to use to install 13.04 AMD server, and it reported errors. I downloaded another copy of the 13.04 ISO and made another bootable USB. This one allowed the system to be installed with no problems whatsoever, so ma

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2013-05-25 Thread Patrick Goetz
I'm having exactly the same problem with 13.04 64-bit server. Can someone elaborate on what's involved in using the linux-server package in the preseed? Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.n

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2013-04-18 Thread Parameswaran Sivatharman
This issue has not occurred since. The installations with linux-server entry in the preseed do not see any issues now. (Except a couple of instances due to temp kernel version mismatch between the archive and the d-i, but they have been already dealt with.) In any case I'll keep watching if this o

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2013-04-16 Thread Brian Murray
This may be due to the fact that linux-server is a transitional package and now points to linux-generic. Perhaps if you were to use that package in your preseed you'd have better luck. Could you give this a try? Thanks in advance. @Matthew - unless you are using the same preseed file as the rep

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2013-04-06 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1117292 Ti

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2013-04-06 Thread Matthew
I experience this issue too. I have 3 drives in the machine and have tried installing using the 12.10 server image and the 13.04 beta2 image. Same result on a core 2 IBM machine. It just won't install past "installing the system." -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2013-02-11 Thread Brian Murray
** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1117292 Title: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virt

[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2013-02-06 Thread Parameswaran Sivatharman
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[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2013-02-06 Thread Parameswaran Sivatharman
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[Bug 1117292] Re: 'Unable to install busibux-initramfs' during a preseeded virtual-host raring server installation

2013-02-06 Thread Parameswaran Sivatharman
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