ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_ma()

[othrayte]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I may have allready found a solution for this "ubiquity --no-migration-assistant", fingers crossed.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Dec 7 19:00:40 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027.1)
Package: ubiquity 2.0.6
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity gtk_ui
ProcEnviron: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/proc/3836/environ'
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', 'gtk_ui']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_ma()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #234835, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[othrayte (othrayte)]

Ok so, this problem seems to be caused by running ubiquity within a liveboot that was booted from an iso file on the hdd (in my case I used grub2's loopback interface). It would seem that the migration assistant wanted to access other files on the partition that had the iso on it and refused to run without unmounting the partition, which I assumed wouldn't be good for the live system.

Simply calling ubiquity using "ubiquity --no-migration-assistant" from the command line instead of the shortcut on the live desktop prevented the migration assistant from complaining.

It would be nice if ubiquity could tell that the liveboot came from an iso file that is still mounted, (ie check if the /isodevice (created I assume by grub2) mount folder exists and offer to not run the migration assistant, either at all or give a warning and then use the assistant on the other partitions that it can access.

ALL IN ALL THIS ISN'T REALLY A BUG!

[othrayte (othrayte)]

I dissagree that this is the bug that you think it is a duplicate of because I clicked go back from the migration asistants dialog about unmounting partitions, the fact that it didn't go back sucessfully could be a bug but it didn't crash by itself or due to the circumstances mentioned in the other bug report.

For this reason I believe that this is not a duplicate bug report and unless someone has looked in to the way that the crash occured (looking at the files) and concluded that they are the same that this report please not be marked as a duplicate.