Ubuntu
partman-partitioning package

Error while creating new partition

Bug #176883 reported by sri on 2007-12-17

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This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	partman-partitioning (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Colin Watson

Bug Description

The message of Bug is:

Installer Crashed

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_ui.py", line 1463, in on_partition_create_use_combo_changed
text = str(self.create_dialog.partition_create_use_combo.currentText())
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

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sri (sri-ubuntu) wrote on 2007-12-17: log/partman

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error is : CRITICAL ERROR

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sri (sri-ubuntu) wrote on 2007-12-17: log/syslog

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2008-07-27:

This is because you're using bash as your default /bin/sh (rather than the Ubuntu default of dash). I fixed this a while back for Ubuntu 8.04:

partman-partitioning (54ubuntu5) hardy; urgency=low

  * Backport from trunk:
    - Only disable swap on devices that are being changed (LP: #199048).
      Requires partman-base (>= 114ubuntu4).
  * Move 'local' down a line in create_new_partition in order to work
    properly with bash, which initialises local variables without an
    accompanying assignment to empty rather than to any previous value.

-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:27:06 +0000