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ubiquity package

installer crashes in keyboard layout selection

Bug #208483 reported by Andreas Hasenack on 2008-03-28

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #184651: Crash when starting gnome-settings-daemon, in SrvXkbFreeGeomRows(). Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Hardy 8.04 beta, installation via live-cd (second boot menu option)

Installation proceeds in pt_BR

In the keyboard layout selection window, Brazil is pre-selected on the left pane. If I click on any of the options of the right pane, like "Brazil - Native", the installer crashes and brings X down with it. I get the gdm login screen.

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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote on 2008-03-28:

If I start the install in english (US), the keyboard layout selection screen doesn't crash, not even if I manually select Brazil on the left and Native on the right.

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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote on 2008-03-28:

messages Edit (36.4 KiB, text/plain)

I'm attaching /var/log/messages from the machine that was being installed. The relevant part seems to be:

(...)
Mar 28 21:24:29 ubuntu ubiquity[8080]: Step_before = stepLocation
Mar 28 21:24:30 ubuntu ubiquity[8080]: log-output -t ubiquity setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout br
Mar 28 21:24:30 ubuntu ubiquity[8080]: switched to page stepKeyboardConf
Mar 28 21:24:38 ubuntu ubiquity: XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"^M
Mar 28 21:24:38 ubuntu ubiquity: after 9 requests (8 known processed) with 0 events remaining.^M
Mar 28 21:24:38 ubuntu ubiquity[8080]: switched to page stepKeyboardConf
Mar 28 21:25:41 ubuntu ubiquity[8836]: Ubiquity 1.8.0
Mar 28 21:25:45 ubuntu ubiquity[8836]: log-output -t ubiquity fontconfig-voodoo --auto --force --quiet
Mar 28 21:25:48 ubuntu ubiquity[8836]: switched to page stepLanguage
(...)

The same crash happens under the same conditions inside a virtualbox virtual machine.

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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote on 2008-03-28:

Actually, just leaving that keyboard layout screen, even by clicking "back" ("anterior" in pt_BR), crashes the installer.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2008-04-09:

Thanks for your report. It's actually the X server itself that's crashing; see bug 184651.