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ubiquity package

Installer crashes when trying to install to a hard drive in VMWare

Bug #72961 reported by Bolek
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #52682: debconf frontend went away -- kde-ui. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 1361, in watch_debconf_fd_helper_read
    self.debconf_callbacks[source](source, debconf_condition)
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 169, in process_input
    if not self.process_line():
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 103, in process_line
    return self.dbfilter.process_line()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/debconffilter.py", line 316, in process_line
    progress_info):
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 353, in progress_info
    ret = self.frontend.debconf_progress_info(
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 234, in description
    return unicode(self.db.metaget(question, 'description'),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/debconf.py", line 60, in <lambda>
    lambda *args, **kw: self.command(command, *args, **kw))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/debconf.py", line 81, in command
    status = int(status)
ValueError: invalid literal for int():

Revision history for this message
Vassilis Pandis (pandisv) wrote :

Could you please attach /var/log/installer/syslog, /var/log/syslog, and /var/log/partman to this bug, by commenting on the bug's web page? /var/log/installer/syslog only exists on Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper. Thanks in advance.

Changed in ubiquity:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik) wrote :

We are seeing a large number of these bugs (which we are tagging as debconf-frontend-crash). While we are not 100% that they all have the same cause (we have not yet found the cause) we are grouping them together as duplicates.

If you are still able to reproduce this bug it would be great to have the /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman log files. This page contains detailed information on uploading log files: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUbiquity/AttachingLogs (you will have to repeat the install attempt with the same Live CD to get them)

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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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