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ubiquity package

Timezone picker crash on double-click on slow system

Bug #60512 reported by era
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Bug Description

Installing on an IBM ThinkPad 600E (pretty old hardware, 266MHz??), I got the timezone picker to crash by double-clicking on Helsinki while it wasn't yet zoomed. It started zooming, frightfully slowly, and then crashed when the second click actually arrived.

This is my off the cuff analysis; I didn't try to repro at the time, but restarting the installer and taking care to click only once allowed me to finish installing.

If you want the logs, they are probably still available, but this is my wife's laptop, so I'll have to arrange with her to get to sit down and dig them out.

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era (era) wrote :

Oh, forgot to mention: I went over all the "installer crashed" bugs in Ubiquity looking for a duplicate of this one, but it's hard to tell from all the raw Python backtraces if any of them are actually a report of this same bug.

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era (era) wrote :

This was the 6.06 Live CD i386 installer, by the way; sorry for failing to mention that.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

This may well be fixed in 6.06.1, but I need at minimum the traceback from you in order to be able to say for sure.

Changed in ubiquity:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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era (era) wrote :

Here's /var/log/installer/syslog -- the first run is very short and ends with a traceback; then, you get the whole log from a successful install.

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era (era) wrote :

For the record, the system is actually a 400MHz Pentium II

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era (era) wrote :

I posted the info you requested; do you need anything more from me?

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Thanks. The crash is bug 48885, fixed in Edgy; the slow zoom is bug 67572, fixed (by disabling smooth zooming) in Feisty. Sorry for taking so long to get back to you, but I have so many bugs that I can't really keep up. :-(

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

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