12.04 Installer crashes on photo screen

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I have the same problem during the installation from USB. You should admire my eyes. "Take a photo" window just lasted less than 1 second and then disappeared. No error message. Just nothing. Installation terminated.

I made the USB installation disk twice. Still persist. I'm finding a way to skip the "take a photo" step. Ya. My laptop camera might be problematic but why bother make it up during the installation?!

i also have this problem with my g1s, i did the ctrl alt f2 rmmod and it is installing now.. thanks!

this was happening on xubuntu.. so then i tried ubuntu.. also happened there

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Launching ubiquity from the terminal or with alt-f2 you can do:

     $ ubiquity --no-webcam

For us to fix this problem though, cause you please run ubiquity like so:

    $ ubiquity --debug

Re-create the crash on the webcam page, and then submit a bug report with /var/log/syslog & /var/log/installer/debug with:

   $ ubuntu-bug ubiquity

Alternatively those files may have been preserved (if you didn't reboot livecd after the last crash & successful installation), in that case attaching files under /var/log/installer/* might me sufficient to fix this problem.

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I can confirm this bug also on Sony VAIO VGN-BX196SP

12.10 installer has the issue too

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.13.17

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ubiquity (2.13.17) raring; urgency=low

  * Remove webcam step (LP: #1118589):
    - User testing showed people are not expecting to be photographed and
      raise privacy concerns as to where the picture will be uploaded to.
    - Provides limited benefit, as avatar only ever shown on multi-login
      systems in the switch user indicator / pkexec.
    - Crashes the installer or doesn't work with certain webcams.
    - Miss detects camera presence, when it's just a sensor.
    - The recommendation is to move webcam test to checkbox / hw testing,
      as video conferencing is very popular these days and should work
      reliably out of the box.
    - LP: #924419 , LP: #981644 , LP: #987392, LP: #1152254, LP: #843354,
      LP: #1008204, LP: #1021449, LP: #1082458, LP: #1103780, LP: #1142751
  * Do not count optional pages, when updating the progress dots. This
    fixes "Porgress dots, well don't progress after partman step"
    LP: #1152746
  * Do not mark explanatory text on "Installation Type" screen
    insensitive, as otherwise it's ineligible (LP: #1074386)
 -- Dmitrijs Ledkovs <email address hidden> Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:17:51 +0000