vivid daily iso installer crashes

Bug #1409964 reported by Armindo Silva
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Bug Description

I was trying to install the nex ubuntu version - 15.04, and ubiquity crashes just after inserting my name and password when the message Installing to disk appears.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch)
Release: 15.04

$ apt-cache policy ubiquity
ubiquity:
  Installed: 2.21.3
  Candidate: 2.21.3
  Version table:
 *** 2.21.3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.18.0-8.9-generic 3.18.1
Uname: Linux 3.18.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.15.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.347
Date: Tue Jan 13 00:08:40 2015
InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=pt
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha amd64 (20150112)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Armindo Silva (deathon2legs) wrote :
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote : Traceback

Exception during installation:
Jan 13 00:08:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jan 13 00:08:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1765, in <module>
Jan 13 00:08:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: install.run()
Jan 13 00:08:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 78, in wrapper
Jan 13 00:08:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: func(self)
Jan 13 00:08:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 204, in run
Jan 13 00:08:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: self.configure_plugins()
Jan 13 00:08:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 570, in configure_plugins
Jan 13 00:08:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: self.run_plugin(plugin)
Jan 13 00:08:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 547, in run_plugin
Jan 13 00:08:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: "Plugin %s failed with code %s" % (plugin.NAME, ret))
Jan 13 00:08:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: ubiquity.install_misc.InstallStepError: Plugin console_setup failed with code 1
Jan 13 00:08:22 ubuntu /plugininstall.py:

tags: added: installer-crash
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Armindo Silva (deathon2legs) wrote :

I've been doing some debugging and the problem it's not with ubiquity, but with the package console-setup.
When installing it (and the daily image has the same problem) /etc/default/keyboard it's not a file with the keyboard configuration but a character device file.

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