Ubuntu
ubiquity package

the installer crash

Bug #53626 reported by cellulosa on 2006-07-21

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #48732: Install crash at the time of partitioning. Edit Remove

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

Bug Description

during the installation, then the date selection.. the isntaller crash! why?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 1177, in watch_debconf_fd_helper_read
    self.debconf_callbacks[source](source, debconf_condition)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 144, in process_input
    if not self.process_line():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 82, in process_line
    return self.dbfilter.process_line()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/debconffilter.py", line 219, in process_line
    if not input_widgets[0].run(priority, question):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/components/partman.py", line 214, in run
    if not self.frontend.set_disk_choices(self.choices(question),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 189, in choices
    choices = unicode(self.db.metaget(question, 'choices'), 'utf-8')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 218-219: invalid data

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2006-07-21:

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 48732, and occurs due to strange model names on certain disks. Pending a fix, it may be possible to work around it by removing unnecessary removable drives (such as any USB sticks) from your system.