unable to reinstall ubuntu
I am trying to use wubi to reinstall ubuntu 11.04, on windows 7 on my laptop. But after allowing wubi application access it stops saying permission denied and says to go through some sort of log file. I'm the administrator.
I've tried downloading wubi a new tiime. vut every time it says the same error "Permission Denied".
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#1 |
Can anybody please help me..
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#2 |
You may want to have a look at the log file you're referring to. Does it say anything more specific about what's wrong?
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Yes, a permission denied message when installing Wubi does not generally provide sufficient information. Please post the contents of the log file here (unless you can solve the problem yourself after looking at them).
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These are some of the last entries of that log file.
08-03 19:36 DEBUG Distro: checking whether D:\ is a valid Ubuntu CD
08-03 19:36 DEBUG Distro: does not contain D:\casper\
08-03 19:36 DEBUG Distro: checking whether E:\ is a valid Ubuntu CD
08-03 19:36 DEBUG Distro: does not contain E:\casper\
08-03 19:36 DEBUG Distro: checking whether F:\ is a valid Ubuntu CD
08-03 19:36 DEBUG Distro: does not contain F:\casper\
08-03 19:36 DEBUG Distro: checking whether G:\ is a valid Ubuntu CD
08-03 19:36 DEBUG Distro: does not contain G:\casper\
08-03 19:36 DEBUG Distro: checking whether H:\ is a valid Ubuntu CD
08-03 19:36 DEBUG Distro: does not contain H:\casper\
08-03 19:36 DEBUG CommonBackend: Searching for local ISO
08-03 19:36 DEBUG CommonBackend: Could not find any ISO or CD, downloading one now
08-03 19:36 DEBUG TaskList: New task get_metalink
08-03 19:36 DEBUG TaskList: ### Running get_metalink...
08-03 19:36 DEBUG downloader: downloading http://
08-03 19:36 DEBUG downloader: Download start filename=
08-03 19:36 DEBUG downloader: download finished (read 28363 bytes)
08-03 19:36 DEBUG downloader: downloading http://
08-03 19:36 DEBUG downloader: Download start filename=
08-03 19:36 DEBUG downloader: download finished (read 874 bytes)
08-03 19:36 DEBUG downloader: downloading http://
08-03 19:36 DEBUG downloader: Download start filename=
08-03 19:36 DEBUG downloader: download finished (read 198 bytes)
08-03 19:36 INFO saplog: Verified a signature from ID:'46181433FBB
08-03 19:36 INFO saplog: Checking block bindings..
08-03 19:36 INFO saplog: Key verified successfully.
08-03 19:36 DEBUG CommonBackend: metalink md5sums:
a941ca07230dd2a
ec67d129102bbe5
350c4c0da582362
10eb1df66373fd0
7b3ef94055a263d
84b89292c5ae40b
d39c949129feb09
b7be563bfb89faa
42aa52e7eaa441d
8376ce671b922bd
e23ed6d11648768
b4b50d20f519fd0
08-03 19:36 DEBUG TaskList: ### Finished get_metalink
08-03 19:36 DEBUG TaskList: New task download
08-03 19:36 DEBUG TaskList: ### Running download...
08-03 19:36 DEBUG btdownloader: downloading http://
08-03 19:36 ERROR TaskList: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "\lib\bittorren
File "\lib\wubi\
DownloadError: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "\lib\bittorren
File "\lib\bittorren
File "\lib\wubi\
DownloadError: Problem connecting to tracker - <urlopen error (10061, 'Connection refused')>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "\lib\wubi\
File "\lib\wubi\
File "\lib\bittorren
File "\lib\bittorren
File "\lib\wubi\
DownloadError: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "\lib\bittorren
File "\lib\wubi\
DownloadError: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "\lib\bittorren
File "\lib\bittorren
File "\lib\wubi\
DownloadError: Problem connecting to tracker - <urlopen error (10061, 'Connection refused')>
08-03 19:36 ERROR TaskList: Non fatal error Traceback (most recent call last):
File "\lib\bittorren
File "\lib\wubi\
DownloadError: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "\lib\bittorren
File "\lib\bittorren
File "\lib\wubi\
DownloadError: Problem connecting to tracker - <urlopen error (10061, 'Connection refused')>
in task download
08-03 19:36 DEBUG TaskList: ### Finished download
08-03 19:36 ERROR TaskList: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'D:\\ubuntu\
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "\lib\wubi\
File "\lib\wubi\
File "\lib\wubi\
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'D:\\ubuntu\
08-03 19:36 DEBUG TaskList: # Cancelling tasklist
08-03 19:36 DEBUG TaskList: # Finished tasklist
08-03 19:36 ERROR root: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'D:\\ubuntu\
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "\lib\wubi\
File "\lib\wubi\
File "\lib\wubi\
File "\lib\wubi\
File "\lib\wubi\
File "\lib\wubi\
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'D:\\ubuntu\
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#5 |
It looks like wubi is trying to save the iso where it doesn't have write permissions. Try changing the target directory, or fix the permissions in D:\ubuntu\install.
You may also want to report a bug against wubi. It shouldn't crash in such a case, but instead it should pop a dialog telling the user about the permission problem and how to fix it
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The problem is this:
DownloadError: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "\lib\bittorren
File "\lib\bittorren
File "\lib\wubi\
DownloadError: Problem connecting to tracker - <urlopen error (10061, 'Connection refused')>
Wubi uses a bittorrent client to download the ISO. To do this you need to allow firewall access to the python runtime (pyrun.exe). If you did give permission to pyrun.exe then there may be an upstream firewall blocking the download.
To fix it, either give pyrun.exe access, or to get around the problem you can download and save wubi.exe, then download the ISO yourself through your browser and save in the same folder as wubi.exe before running. Download the ISO from http://
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#7 |
Just want to add a couple of comments:
1. When you ran Wubi, you should have seen a popup prompt asking whether to allow pyrun.exe access to your firewall.
2. For more info on installing Wubi, see https:/
3. In general you should post the entire log file (you should use http://
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#8 |
Thanks for your comments guys,
I think bcbc is right because in my university, they have blocked torrents' downloads. Will try to get a dvd.
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#9 |
You don't need to obtain a physical DVD. Just download the Ubuntu .iso file at http://
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#11 |
If you do end up having trouble downloading the .iso image, or figuring out what .iso image you need (you want the one for whatever version of Ubuntu you want your Wubi system to be), please let us know and we can provide more detailed help with that.