Installer crashes @ partitioning step

Bug #75521 reported by Jonathan M. Prigot
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ubiquity (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Boot from x86_84 Desktop CD
Use adept to install latest patches
Click on desktop "Install" icon
@ disk partitioning screen, installer crashes with:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 1339, 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 227, in process_line
    if not input_widgets[0].run(priority, question):
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/components/partman_auto.py", line 182, in run
    self.resize_desc, self.manual_desc)
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 1544, in set_autopartition_choices
    new_size_hbox, 'new_size_label')
TypeError: argument 2 of QLabel() has an invalid type

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Jonathan M. Prigot (jprigot) wrote :
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/var/log/syslog:
switched to page stepPartAuto
Dec 12 20:25:45 ubuntu ubiquity[16864]: Step_after = stepPartAuto
Dec 12 20:25:46 ubuntu ubiquity[16864]: ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/bin/partman']' for ubiquity.components.partman_auto.PartmanAuto
Dec 12 20:25:46 ubuntu ubiquity[16864]: ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^partman-auto/.*automatically_partition$, ^partman-auto/select_disk$, ^partman-partitioning/new_size$, ^partman/choose_partition$, ^partman/confirm.*, type:boolean, ERROR, PROGRESS
Dec 12 20:25:46 ubuntu kernel: [ 2047.350226] NTFS driver 2.1.27 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
Dec 12 20:25:47 ubuntu kernel: [ 2047.413977] JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536
Dec 12 20:25:47 ubuntu kernel: [ 2047.478513] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block/inode numbers, no debug enabled
Dec 12 20:25:47 ubuntu kernel: [ 2047.478961] SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Dec 12 20:25:53 ubuntu ntfsresize: ntfsresize v1.13.1 (libntfs 9:0:0)
Dec 12 20:25:53 ubuntu ntfsresize: Device name : /dev/hda1
Dec 12 20:25:53 ubuntu ntfsresize: NTFS volume version: 3.1
Dec 12 20:25:53 ubuntu ntfsresize: Cluster size : 4096 bytes
Dec 12 20:25:53 ubuntu ntfsresize: Current volume size: 14682087936 bytes (14683 MB)
Dec 12 20:25:53 ubuntu ntfsresize: Current device size: 14682092544 bytes (14683 MB)
Dec 12 20:25:53 ubuntu ntfsresize: Checking filesystem consistency ...
Dec 12 20:25:53 ubuntu ntfsresize: Accounting clusters ...
Dec 12 20:25:53 ubuntu ntfsresize: Space in use : 13033 MB (88.8%)
Dec 12 20:25:53 ubuntu ntfsresize: Collecting resizing constraints ...
Dec 12 20:25:53 ubuntu ntfsresize: You might resize at 13032849408 bytes or 13033 MB (freeing 1650 MB).
Dec 12 20:25:53 ubuntu ntfsresize: Please make a test run using both the -n and -s options before real resizing!
Dec 12 20:26:07 ubuntu kernel: [ 2058.310923] NTFS volume version 3.1.
Dec 12 20:26:07 ubuntu partman: Partition /dev/hda1 does not contain Windows Vista
Dec 12 20:26:11 ubuntu ntfsresize: ntfsresize v1.13.1 (libntfs 9:0:0)
Dec 12 20:26:11 ubuntu ntfsresize: Device name : /dev/hda1
Dec 12 20:26:11 ubuntu ntfsresize: NTFS volume version: 3.1
Dec 12 20:26:11 ubuntu ntfsresize: Cluster size : 4096 bytes
Dec 12 20:26:11 ubuntu ntfsresize: Current volume size: 14682087936 bytes (14683 MB)
Dec 12 20:26:11 ubuntu ntfsresize: Current device size: 14682092544 bytes (14683 MB)
Dec 12 20:26:11 ubuntu ntfsresize: Checking filesystem consistency ...
Dec 12 20:26:11 ubuntu ntfsresize: Accounting clusters ...
Dec 12 20:26:11 ubuntu ntfsresize: Space in use : 13033 MB (88.8%)
Dec 12 20:26:11 ubuntu ntfsresize: Collecting resizing constraints ...
Dec 12 20:26:11 ubuntu ntfsresize: You might resize at 13032849408 bytes or 13033 MB (freeing 1650 MB).
Dec 12 20:26:11 ubuntu ntfsresize: Please make a test run using both the -n and -s options before real resizing!
Dec 12 20:26:12 ubuntu kernel: [ 2060.555871] NTFS volume version 3.1.
Dec 12 20:26:12 ubuntu partman: Partition /dev/hda1 does not contain Windows Vista
Dec 12 20:26:15 ubuntu ntfsresize: ntfsresize v1.13.1 (libntfs 9:0:0)
Dec 12 20:26:15 ubuntu ntfsre...

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Jonathan M. Prigot (jprigot) wrote :

/var/log/partman:

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Thanks for your report, and sorry for the very late response. It looks like this was fixed as part of porting the KDE frontend to Qt 4, which happened in time for Kubuntu 7.04.

Changed in ubiquity:
status: New → Fix Released
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