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"ubiquity" crashed during Ubuntu installation - account and password creation

Bug #123334 reported by NickB
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Evan

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

While installing Ubuntu (7.04 Feisty Fawn i386) using the Live CD, I got a crash notification concerning ubiquity. At the time, I was creating my user account. I had just started typing in a password when I got the crash notification. I was also importing some of my settings from a Windows XP Professional account into this Ubuntu Linux account.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jul 1 01:43:04 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: ubiquity 1.4.11
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity gtkui
ProcCwd: /home/ubuntu
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', 'gtkui']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 1644, in ma_info_loop
     for k in m.get_value(i, 1).iterkeys():
 TypeError: iter must be a GtkTreeIter
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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NickB (nbastean) wrote :
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Evan (ev) wrote :

What did you type in the username box on the Migrate Documents and Settings page?
Could you possibly run the installer again by typing `ubiquity -d` in a terminal window (to enable debugging information) and attach /var/log/installer/debug to this report?

Thanks!

Changed in ubiquity:
assignee: nobody → evand
status: New → Incomplete
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NickB (nbastean) wrote : RE: [Bug 123334] Re: "ubiquity" crashed during Ubuntu installation - account and password creation

I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, but I'm still an Ubuntu newbie. I did get Ubuntu installed so if I run that command, it won't try to reinstall over my existing installation, will it? If it will just give you some needed debug information, I can do that when I get home. I just don't want to break the installation I have.

To answer your other question, at first I typed "Nick" into the username box, and it complained about the capital letter. I then changed it to "nick" and that worked OK. I was attempting to migrate data from an XP Pro account called "Nick". Some of the data was migrated and some data wasn't.

Let me know what that 'ubiquity -d' command will do, and I'll run it if it won't break my existing Ubuntu installation.

Thanks,
Nick

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> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 05:51:21 +0000
> Subject: [Bug 123334] Re: "ubiquity" crashed during Ubuntu installation - account and password creation
>
> What did you type in the username box on the Migrate Documents and Settings page?
> Could you possibly run the installer again by typing `ubiquity -d` in a terminal window (to enable debugging information) and attach /var/log/installer/debug to this report?
>
> Thanks!
>
> ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Evan Dandrea
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> "ubiquity" crashed during Ubuntu installation - account and password creation
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123334
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Evan (ev) wrote :

If you run it (in debug mode) and then hit cancel at the "confirm your installation choices" page, it *should not* make any changes to your hard drive. I cannot, however, guarantee that as anything is possible, but I cannot honestly see how it would modify your computer. Just make sure you don't press the install button.

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Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New".

Thanks

Changed in ubiquity:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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