[Bug 1312586] Re: Default 14.04 server installation fails with error 'busybox-intramfs cannot be installed'

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

This bug looks a lot like an issue caused by a badly-generated USB key.
It's not impossible there was a problem with usb-creator itself, if
that's what everyone was using to create the USB keys.

I'd be curious to see; what happens if you create the USB key using dd
or mkusb instead? See
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb#Quick_start_manual_and_mkusb_PPA.

** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  Default 14.04 server installation fails with error 'busybox-intramfs
  cannot be installed'

Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I tried to install using the official Ubuntu 14.04 server installation
  image. In the installation I selected as partition layout LVM with
  automatic partitioning. User details and other input didn't have
  anything special. At the end to the copying files to disk -stage the
  process stopped with the error message "Package busybox-intramfs
  cannot be installed".

  I've attached real screenshots of the error message and the output on
  console 4, which indicate that the root cause was in the base-install
  or in-target stages.

  I rebooted the machine and started the installation from scratch, and
  it stopped in the same result. Thus this seems like a repeatable bug
  and worth filing.

  As I was unable to get the installation done using the server image I
  installed Lubuntu. Using Lubuntu I also selected as partition layout
  LVM with automatic partitioning. Lubuntu installation finished
  successfully, so this bug does not affect Ubiquity or other parts of
  LVM nor did it have anything to do with hardware or other parts of
  Ubuntu. I've also checked the MD5 on the installation image that it
  was not corrupt.

  I'd love to help but unfortunately I cannot re-install this machine or
  access it's logs again, so I can't do more debugging.

  Bug #1117292 seems similar, but in my case the installation failed
  out-of-the-box, installation was not preseeded and it was not random
  but repeatable.

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