Fixed. Make root filesystem ext3, not xfs. Details below. ------------------ Installer was crashing as soon as it said "Configuring boot loader...".
Experimenting with grub-installer showed that things weren't working correctly. This was the setup: - New root partition at /dev/sda2 - Partition mostly installed; installer only failed after setting up most of the files on the system. - Mounted partition at /mnt/sda2 Running this: grub-install /dev/sda --root-directory=/mnt/sda2 displayed message to effect that "if you run this on non-xfs filesystems, you'll get a segfault which can be ignored; this is due to xfs_freeze", and then hung. Retrying install with new root partition formatted as ext3 rather than as xfs proceeds completely successfully. Didn't try it without the net connection, though. All working, for now. -- Installer crashed https://launchpad.net/bugs/56696 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
