[00:23] debian-installer: cjwatson * r1571 ubuntu/ (build/config/i386/netboot.cfg debian/changelog): Bump i386 netboot image size by 512KiB. [00:26] debian-installer: cjwatson * r1572 ubuntu/debian/changelog: releasing version 20101020ubuntu81 [16:31] bug 896546, same crash than bug 894768 but with virtualbox [16:31] Launchpad bug 896546 in ubiquity "Ubiquity crashed while trying to install 12.04 in VirtualBox on an iMac" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/896546 [16:31] Launchpad bug 894768 in ubiquity "Installation randomly fails with: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/install_misc.py", line 621, in copy_file targetfh.write(buf) IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument " [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/894768 [16:36] the difference is that 896546 fails in targetfh.close(), while 894768 failed in write() [18:17] jibel: that's compatible with it being a kernel bug, then [18:18] it's unsurprising that you might sometimes get it in close() and sometimes in write(), since close() often has to write buffered data