ubiquity crashes if folder for home directory is symlink

[Duncan Hawthorne]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

a partition has folder B. and folder A being a symlink to B
if you mount the partition in the live cd nautilus (by clicking on it in the left panel in nautilus) the symlink works correctly; going into A goes into B

start ubiquity
select to have the partition mounted as home in ubquity
choose user name A
installation fails, installer crashes without error message when it says "setting up home directory" below progress bar

start ubiquity again
select to have the partition mounted as home in ubquity
choose user name B
installation works successfully ( and I get my old home directory back :) )
Then start up newly installed ubuntu. In system>admin>users and groups. can change home directory location from B to A, no problems. So there is no actual problem with having the home folder as a symlink once installed

Clearly there should be no difference between the folders. Whatever the installer needs to do with the folder A it should be able to do it as if it was B

This was using the ubuntu 8.04 live cd.
I'm sorry but i dont have any error logs, and also i dont really want to reinstall ubuntu to get them. But i tried the installer several times and it crashed every time until i changed my username from A to B, when i thought it might have been having trouble with the symlink. So this might not be a very useful bug report, but i thought i should report it anyway. It may also be something specific to my home folder, as I have had it for a year now, but as it doesnt cause a problem changing it once installed, i dont think it should be a problem for ubiquity

[Duncan Hawthorne (duncan.hawthorne)]

installed intrepid, got the logs this time.
ubiquity crashes (the window just disappears from the screen, no further notification given) and then the cd spins down. certainly is confusing for the user. I couldnt tell whether it had finished sucessfully or crashed.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Exception during installation:
Aug 10 23:36:51 ubuntu python: Traceback (most recent call last):
Aug 10 23:36:51 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1975, in <module>
Aug 10 23:36:51 ubuntu python: install.run()
Aug 10 23:36:51 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 366, in run
Aug 10 23:36:51 ubuntu python: self.configure_user()
Aug 10 23:36:51 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1162, in configure_user
Aug 10 23:36:51 ubuntu python: raise InstallStepError("UserSetupApply failed with code %d" % ret)
Aug 10 23:36:51 ubuntu python: InstallStepError: UserSetupApply failed with code 1
Aug 10 23:36:51 ubuntu python:

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

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