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ubiquity package

oem-config-firstboot crashing upon run

Bug #526405 reported by kriberg
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I have installed using the alternate iso with the linked preseed-file[1]. After installation during the first boot of the new system, oem-config-firstboot crashes. This happens every time i try to boot it. /var/log/oem-config.log contains a couple of occurences of this message [2]:
Ubiquity 2.1.24 (oem-config)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/oem-config", line 462, in <module>
    main(oem_config)
  File "/usr/sbin/oem-config", line 449, in main
    install(query=options.query)
  File "/usr/sbin/oem-config", line 239, in install
    wizard = ui.Wizard(distro)
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/debconf_ui.py", line 45, in __init__
    BaseFrontend.__init__(self, distro)
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/base.py", line 163, in __init__
    raise ValueError, 'No valid steps.'
ValueError: No valid steps.

oem-config-firstboot prints the following to the terminal:
ERROR: The OEM installer failed. Your system may not be usable yet. Please
report this as a bug to your vendor.

To create a user so that you can use your new system normally, type:

    adduser USERNAME

... replacing USERNAME with the username you would like to use (your first
name in lower case is normally a resonable choice), and follow the prompts.
If this succeeds, type 'exit' to reboot the system.

bash: no job control in this shell

[1]. http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/382192/
[2]. http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/382190/

Mario Limonciello (superm1)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.1.25

---------------
ubiquity (2.1.25) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Fix installation_medium_mounted call in partman plugin (LP: #524169).
  * Make sure that /var/log/installer/media-info is world-readable.

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * get_mod_bool needs to default to True if the attribute doesn't
    exist in the plugin.
    - Fixes oem-config ValueError (LP: #526405)
  * Fix launching KDE frontend in oem-config mode (LP: #526496)
  * Automatic update of included source packages: base-installer
    1.103ubuntu4.
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:38:20 +0000

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
kriberg (kriberg) wrote :

Tested with daily iso 20100223.2 and there are still problems.
The ValueError is removed, now /var/log/oem-config.log just contains "Ubiquity 2.1.27 (oem-config)" six times. The result is still the same though. X does not start and there is no dialog for entering username.

The startup sequence stops when running oem-config-firstboot still, but now it reports:
/usr/sbin/oem-config-firstboot: line 54: 785 Segementation fault LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/sbin/oem-config $DEBUG --only 2>> /var/log/oem-config.log

When running "sudo oem-config-firstboot" as the oem-user, /var/log/oem-config.log is filled with:
debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied

Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)
tags: added: iso-testing
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