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ubiquity package

oem-config with debconf frontent goes into endless loop

Bug #519398 reported by Oliver Grawert on 2010-02-09

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Colin Watson

Bug Description

Binary package hint: oem-config

using oem-config in a rootstock bootstrapped rootfs the questions come up fine but after the tasksel setp it restarts without writing anything to disk or restarting the system.

on suggestion of evan i removed /usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-network.py and /usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-tasks.py since both of these steps are handled by rootstock during rootfs creation. wich this change i end up in an earlier stage but the behavior stays the same.

the traceback in the log is the following:

grep: /target/etc/apt/sources.list: No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/oem-config", line 454, in <module>
    main(oem_config)
  File "/usr/sbin/oem-config", line 441, in main
    install(query=options.query)
  File "/usr/sbin/oem-config", line 243, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/debconf_ui.py", line 144, in run
    (ret, realtb))
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 2417, in <module>
    install.run()
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 359, in run
    self.db.progress('REGION', count, count+1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 65, in <lambda>
    lambda *args, **kw: self.command(command, *args, **kw))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 101, in command
    raise DebconfError(status, data)
DebconfError: (20, 'Unknown subcommand')

full log will be attached separately.

Related branches

lp:ubiquity

lp:ubuntu/lucid/ubiquity

Revision history for this message

Oliver Grawert (ogra) wrote on 2010-02-09:

oem-config.log Edit (7.0 KiB, text/plain)

Colin Watson (cjwatson) on 2010-02-09

affects:

oem-config (Ubuntu) → ubiquity (Ubuntu)

Colin Watson (cjwatson) on 2010-02-09

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Committed
assignee:	nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2010-02-12:

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.1.17

---------------
ubiquity (2.1.17) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * debian/oem-config.postinst:
    - Source debconf to ensure templates are populated in debconf.
  * Drop update-rc.d calls from oem-config scripts as it's only supported
    via upstart now.
  * misc: return True/False from execute_root rather than None.

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Use a GtkSpinner instead of a separate progress window when on the
    manual partitioning page.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * In cdebconf mode, initialise the templates database if necessary as a
    workaround for cdebconf's packaging not doing this itself.
  * Don't issue PROGRESS REGION command under debconf_ui (LP: #519398).
  * KDE frontend:
    - Don't add partition bar frames for devices we can't find for whatever
      reason (LP: #485450).
  * Pass model, layout, variant, and options to rewrite_xorg_conf
    (LP: #514646).
  * Install zh-hans language packs for zh_CN, and zh-hant language packs for
    zh_TW (LP: #517621).
  * Fix crash on keyboard variant selection (LP: #512953).
  * Enable cancellation of NTP syncing.
  * Correct tuple syntax in copy_debconf, thereby fixing copying of
    console-setup's debconf questions.
  * Fix unmount of /target/dev harder; second and subsequent arguments to
    os.path.join need to not start with a slash.
  * Automatically fall back to vesa if normal X startup fails. This is a
    reduced emulation of bullet-proof-X; using the standard implementation
    is currently tricky.
  * Add a couple of lintian overrides.
  * Explicitly build-depend on xkb-data-i18n. We normally skip
    console-setup's build-dependencies when generating our own, but we need
    this one to run kbdnames-maker.
  * Update translations from Launchpad (LP: #473554, #520905).
  * Automatic update of included source packages: base-installer
    1.103ubuntu3, console-setup 1.34ubuntu9, debian-installer-utils
    1.72ubuntu3, grub-installer 1.49ubuntu4, hw-detect 1.73ubuntu2,
    partman-auto 89ubuntu3, partman-basicfilesystems 63ubuntu3,
    partman-partitioning 72ubuntu3, tzsetup 1:0.26ubuntu5.
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:07:51 +0000

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.1.17

---------------
ubiquity (2.1.17) lucid; urgency=low

[ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Use a GtkSpinner instead of a separate progress window when on the
    manual partitioning page.

[ Colin Watson ]
  * In cdebconf mode, initialise the templates database if necessary as a
    workaround for cdebconf's packaging not doing this itself.
  * Don't issue PROGRESS REGION command under debconf_ui (LP: #519398).
  * KDE frontend:
    - Don't add partition bar frames for devices we can't find for whatever
      reason (LP: #485450).
  * Pass model, layout, variant, and options to rewrite_xorg_conf
    (LP: #514646).
  * Install zh-hans language packs for zh_CN, and zh-hant language packs for
    zh_TW (LP: #517621).
  * Fix crash on keyboard variant selection (LP: #512953).
  * Enable cancellation of NTP syncing.
  * Correct tuple syntax in copy_debconf, thereby fixing copying of
    console-setup's debconf questions.
  * Fix unmount of /target/dev harder; second and subsequent arguments to
    os.path.join need to not start with a slash.
  * Automatically fall back to vesa if normal X startup fails.  This is a
    reduced emulation of bullet-proof-X; using the standard implementation
    is currently tricky.
  * Add a couple of lintian overrides.
  * Explicitly build-depend on xkb-data-i18n.  We normally skip
    console-setup's build-dependencies when generating our own, but we need
    this one to run kbdnames-maker.
  * Update translations from Launchpad (LP: #473554, #520905).
  * Automatic update of included source packages: base-installer
    1.103ubuntu3, console-setup 1.34ubuntu9, debian-installer-utils
    1.72ubuntu3, grub-installer 1.49ubuntu4, hw-detect 1.73ubuntu2,
    partman-auto 89ubuntu3, partman-basicfilesystems 63ubuntu3,
    partman-partitioning 72ubuntu3, tzsetup 1:0.26ubuntu5.
 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>   Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:07:51 +0000