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Feisty daily ubiquity crash (voodoo too) - 200701015

Bug #79387 reported by Peter Whittaker on 2007-01-15

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #80253: Can't launch ubiquity on 20070117 feisty-desktop-i386.iso. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	debconf (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Feisty daily 20070115 ubiquity crashes. Traceback below, syslog and crash files (ubiquity and voodoo) attached.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ubiquity --desktop %k gtkui
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 185, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 180, in main
    install(args[0])
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 44, in install
    mod = __import__('ubiquity.frontend', globals(), locals(), frontends)
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 53, in <module>
    from ubiquity.debconfcommunicator import DebconfCommunicator
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/debconfcommunicator.py", line 22, in <module>
    import debconf
ImportError: No module named debconf

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Peter Whittaker (pwwnow) wrote on 2007-01-15:

syslog Edit (31.3 KiB, text/plain)

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Peter Whittaker (pwwnow) wrote on 2007-01-15:

ubiquity crash file from /var/crash Edit (17.9 KiB, text/plain)

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Peter Whittaker (pwwnow) wrote on 2007-01-15:

fontconfig-voodoo crash file (from /var/crash) Edit (666 bytes, text/plain)

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Christian Kirbach (christian-kirbach-e) wrote on 2007-01-15:

same here (desktop i386 daily live cd 20070115)

looks like the debconf python package is missing

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Peter Whittaker (pwwnow) wrote on 2007-01-15:

Marking this as confirmed based on Christian's response (yes, bad form to confirm one's own bug reports, at least otherwise...)....

Changed in ubiquity:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Peter Whittaker (pwwnow) wrote on 2007-01-16: 20070116 too (Re: Feisty daily ubiquity crash (voodoo too) - 200701015)

/var/log/syslog from failed daily installation (20070116) Edit (31.3 KiB, text/plain)

Similar crashes today, plus an app-install crash. Attaching syslog and three crash files.

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Peter Whittaker (pwwnow) wrote on 2007-01-16:

_usr_sbin_update-app-install.0.crash (20070116) Edit (7.0 KiB, text/plain)

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Peter Whittaker (pwwnow) wrote on 2007-01-16:

_usr_lib_ubiquity_bin_ubiquity.0.crash (20070116) Edit (17.1 KiB, text/plain)

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Peter Whittaker (pwwnow) wrote on 2007-01-16:

_usr_bin_fontconfig-voodoo.0.crash (20070116) Edit (666 bytes, text/plain)

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Peter Whittaker (pwwnow) wrote on 2007-01-17:

#10

Still happening - but just noticed something very weird!

/var/crash is PRE-POPULATED on the CD image!

That's right, when I boot from the LiveCD, there is already an app-install crash file in /var/crash, and its timestamp predates the CD image's.

So this appears to be the route cause of our problems.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2007-01-18:

#11

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 80253, which I noticed earlier and fixed. The other crashes are unconnected; please file separate bug reports for each of them.