The Ubuntu Beta (released 2006-04-20) installer crashed after selecting German as language

[Konrad Kleine]

I ran the ubuntu live cd.
I chose a screen resolution of 1280x1024 and the German language. Just after the Live CD booted and I got a running Gnome Desktop (nice nice nice), I double clicked on the "Install" icon on the desktop.
I had to adjust the time from 21 to 19 o'clock. Then I selected my language (German) and the installer crashed, leaving this message to me:

We're sorry; the installer crashed. Please file a bug report at https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+filebug and a developer will attend to the problem as soon as possible. To help the developers understand what went wrong, include the following detail in your bug report:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 1061, in watch_debconf_fd_helper
    return callback(source, debconf_condition)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 141, in process_input
    if not self.process_line():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 80, in process_line
    return self.dbfilter.process_line()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/debconffilter.py", line 208, in process_line
    if not input_widgets[0].run(priority, question):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/components/kbd_chooser.py", line 61, in run
    self.debug("Display map: %s", self.choices_display_map(question))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 197, in choices_display_map
    choices = self.choices(question)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 186, in choices
    choices = unicode(self.db.metaget(question, 'choices'), 'utf-8')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/debconf.py", line 58, in <lambda>
    lambda *args, **kw: self.command(command, *args, **kw))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/debconf.py", line 64, in command
    resp = self.read.readline().strip()
IOError: [Errno 4] Unterbrechung während des Betriebssystemaufrufs

[Konrad Kleine (konrad.kleine)]

After I manually set up my internet connection (wireless settings, WEP key etc.) the installer "survived" the step described above. ;)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 41921.