[Bug 947738] Re: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin
[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947738 Title: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/947738/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 947738] Re: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin
I did not find any recent incidents of this error, "sudo: unable to open /etc/sudoers:", in bug reports about ubiquity for any release than Ubuntu 12.04. Subsequently, I am unassigning the canonical-founations team from this bug report. ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Assignee: Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) => (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947738 Title: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/947738/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 947738] Re: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin
There's supposed to be code in partman-basicfilesystems (check.d/mountpoint_fat - never mind the file name) that prevents NTFS being used for system partitions where POSIX semantics are required, too. Although I suppose that if partman were fundamentally confused about the identity of the partition for some reason, or in some cases of pathological manual partitioning, we might have missed something there. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947738 Title: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/947738/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 947738] Re: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin
About duplicate bug 980451 I notice the explanation says, installing to a external drive, ubiquity crashed. External drive was formatted - do somethng else was chosen , no swap, / was selected on a ntfs partition. That raises two red flags for me; using NTFS??? and no swap??? A manual install should proceed w/o swap but where does NTFS play into this? I do have a blank 160GB external USB drive that I could test with if I knew exactly how to reproduce, but I don't think we can install Ubuntu to NTFS, can we? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947738 Title: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/947738/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 947738] Re: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin
sorry for the confusion. it was NTFS before I formatted it -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947738 Title: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/947738/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 947738] Re: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin
karl, if the install had *actually* happened to an ntfs partition, instead of to an ext4 partition, that would exactly explain the symptom we're seeing here (since ntfs doesn't support suid executables). If you still have this install available, can you mount it and check what the filesystem type is? Can you also show the output of 'ls -l /usr/bin/sudo' on the target partition, as requested above on the bug? It's certainly possible there's a bug here that's preventing the partition from being wiped even though you marked it for wiping; or the issue could be something else entirely. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947738 Title: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/947738/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
RE: [Bug 947738] Re: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin
thanks for the response. I have since installed Ubuntu without hitch. I may have selected wrong partition to install to. I am dual booting Ubuntu and Windows7..and I do have a swap space assigned. Once again , I appreciate the response. Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 01:12:33 + From: lbsol...@yahoo.com To: wj883...@hotmail.com Subject: [Bug 947738] Re: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin About duplicate bug 980451 I notice the explanation says, installing to a external drive, ubiquity crashed. External drive was formatted - do somethng else was chosen , no swap, / was selected on a ntfs partition. That raises two red flags for me; using NTFS??? and no swap??? A manual install should proceed w/o swap but where does NTFS play into this? I do have a blank 160GB external USB drive that I could test with if I knew exactly how to reproduce, but I don't think we can install Ubuntu to NTFS, can we? -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a duplicate bug report (948207). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947738 Title: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I booted from the 12.04 beta image. Trying Ubuntu, everything works great but during the install I got a dialog box that only said Installer Crashed. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: ubiquity 2.9.24 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic 3.2.6 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CasperVersion: 1.306 Date: Mon Mar 5 21:02:09 2012 InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin - Beta amd64 (20120301) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_CA.UTF-8 TERM=unknown PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: ubiquity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/947738/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947738 Title: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/947738/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 947738] Re: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin
I tried to reproduce this with a current daily and failed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947738 Title: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/947738/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 947738] Re: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin
Mar 6 05:00:35 ubuntu ubiquity: sudo: unable to open /etc/sudoers: Permission denied That's a very strange error. sudo should be an suid-root executable, which means it should have no problem opening /etc/sudoers. Is this happening when installing from a live CD or from a USB stick? What's the output of the command 'ls -l /usr/bin/sudo' on this system? (Have you already rebooted since hitting this error, and if so, did the problem persist?) I suspect a filesystem corruption problem or kernel fs driver bug here. The above answers may help us pin it down. ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947738 Title: precise failed to install: unable to initialize policy plugin To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/947738/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
