Binary package hint: ubiquity
I'm currently trying to test the candidate images for Natty Alpha 2 (20110202, amd64) and ran into the following problem while installing Natty with Ubiquity:
- The screen to select the proper keyboard layout appeared as usual.
- Then I must have pressed some wrong key ('g' to go to 'Germany' in the country list, at least I was trying to do so), the keyboard selection dialog disappeared and Ubiquity went further to next question (entering user name, password, etc.).
- Even if I clicked the 'Back'-button in Ubiquity, I couldn't get the keyboard selection screen back, just the time zone selection.
The result was that to my point of view a random keyboard layout had been selected (Democratic Republic of Kongo) which I had to correct myself in the live environment just to be able to type my user name/password with proper letters.
I was trying to report this bug with 'ubuntu-bug ubiquity', but Apport(?) crashed with the following outpu (maybe a seperate bug?)t:
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ubuntu-bug ubiquity
(apport-gtk:1920): Gtk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.0/gtk/gtktreestore.c:765: Unable to convert from PyObject to gchararray
(apport-gtk:1920): Gtk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.0/gtk/gtktreestore.c:765: Unable to convert from PyObject to gchararray
(apport-gtk:1920): Gtk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.0/gtk/gtktreestore.c:765: Unable to convert from PyObject to gchararray
(apport-gtk:1920): Gtk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.0/gtk/gtktreestore.c:765: Unable to convert from PyObject to gchararray
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 357, in <module>
app.run_argv()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 563, in run_argv
return self.run_report_bug()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 415, in run_report_bug
self.file_report()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 951, in file_report
ticket = upthread.return_value()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/REThread.py", line 46, in return_value
assert not self._exception
AssertionError
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Thus I had to report it the old manual way.
Kind regards,
Jan
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Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330)
LiveMediaBuild_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330)
Package: ubiquity 2.5.32
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Tags: natty natty
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:
I tried recreating this bug report with the daily live cd from 2010-02-02 and was unable to - when I clicked the back button I could indeed go backwards and choose a different keyboard layout. I tried this when the installer was in both the 'copying files' phase and the 'Ready when you are...' phase.
I did notice though that when one starts typing in the keyboard selection dialog a pop-up search box comes up and that if you press enter it does go to the next screen which may be confusing.