Installer (ubiquity) crashed while changing partition layout

[Daniel T.]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I tested the Live CD "Kubuntu 10.4 Alpha 1". During the "Disk Setup" step I chose to manually setup the layout. I selected a partition, clicked on change and selected it to be an ext4 parition, to be mounted as "/" and checked the checkbox to format it. After a click on ok the installer crashes (reproducable) with the following message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_ui.py", line 1888, in
on_partition_list_edit_activate
    self.partman_edit_dialog(devpart, partition)
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_ui.py", line 1760, in
partman_edit_dialog
    self.dbfilter.edit_partition(devpart, **edits)
TypeError: edit_partition() got an unexpected keyword argument 'format'

Unfortunately I can't append /var/log/partman, because Konqueror (the only browser I have with the Live CD) seems not to be able to work together with Launchpad for a file upload.

[bhood (byron-phareware)]

I received the same error, and was able to locate and attach the two files indicated in the error message.

[bhood (byron-phareware)]

This crash only occurs when I select the option to format a particular partition in the dialog to change an existing partition, and then press OK to save the settings for that partition.

If I do not select the option to format the partition, the installer behaves normally and continues to install successfully.

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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