Ubiquity crashes during installation

I was able to work around this by disabling home folder encryption, but that's far from an optimal fix.

Exception during installation:
Dec 11 00:32:08 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Dec 11 00:32:08 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1770, in <module>
Dec 11 00:32:08 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: install.run()
Dec 11 00:32:08 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 78, in wrapper
Dec 11 00:32:08 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: func(self)
Dec 11 00:32:08 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 204, in run
Dec 11 00:32:08 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: self.configure_plugins()
Dec 11 00:32:08 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 570, in configure_plugins
Dec 11 00:32:08 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: self.run_plugin(plugin)
Dec 11 00:32:08 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 547, in run_plugin
Dec 11 00:32:08 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: "Plugin %s failed with code %s" % (plugin.NAME, ret))
Dec 11 00:32:08 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: ubiquity.install_misc.InstallStepError: Plugin usersetup failed with code 1
Dec 11 00:32:08 ubuntu /plugininstall.py:

This is likely relevant:

Dec 11 00:32:08 ubuntu user-setup: Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...
Dec 11 00:32:08 ubuntu ubiquity: chpasswd: (user ian) pam_chauthtok() failed, error:
Dec 11 00:32:08 ubuntu ubiquity: Permission denied
Dec 11 00:32:08 ubuntu ubiquity: chpasswd: (line 1, user ian) password not changed

This also occurrs in 14.10, I didn't bother trying 14.04.

Hello Ian,

Have you tried this recently? Is it still an issue?

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On 04/16/2015 11:16 AM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
> Hello Ian,
>
> Have you tried this recently? Is it still an issue?
>

No, I don't have any spare hardware to test it on. I'll try and see
if I can replicate it in a VM.

- --
Ian Nicholson
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Having an issue with the Vivid installer doing the same thing, only there's no encryption involved, and the home folder is specified to be in the same Ubuntu partition.

Didn't have any issues with Utopic.

Marking as Incomplete until we can reproduce this in a VM.

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu Vivid) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Slipped off my radar. I'll try to replicate it as soon as I get a chance.

This issue has sat incomplete for more than six years without a follow-up to comment #15. All releases referred to are now EOL. Closing as "Invalid".