install.py crashed with AssertionError in __init__() [regression from 2.1.20]

[Martin Pitt]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I got this from today's ubuntu-netbook daily image. I got as far as answering all the questions, then it crashed.

I actually got two crash reports, will file the second one in a minute. I don't know whether one is just the consequence of the other.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 18 08:12:24 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/ubiquity/install.py
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100218)
Package: ubiquity 2.1.21
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined (enforce)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/share/ubiquity/install.py
ProcCwd: /home/ubuntu
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LC_COLLATE=C
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-13.18-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: install.py crashed with AssertionError in __init__()
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-13-generic i686
UserGroups:

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

The other crash report is bug 523649.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

It just occurred to me that ubiquity didn't even ask me for partitioning; it just seems to have skipped that step entirely.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I downgraded to 2.1.20 ubiquity debs, and confirm that these do not have this problem. So it's apparently not a regression from the 2.1.20 conversion to plugins, but a regression in 2.1.21.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Since this seems to break the installer completely, and this does not look system specific, I'm milestoning this to alpha-3.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.1.22

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ubiquity (2.1.22) lucid; urgency=low

  * Use raised_privileges() in the noninteractive FE for init.
  * Fix a couple of areas that broke in the noninteractive portions of
    ubi-usersetup from the plugins conversion.
  * Drop myth-summary. Now that ubi-summary is a plugin, it's much more
    difficult to override, and not worth the delta.
  * Since both partman and usersetup now want to go after console_setup,
    set partman's weight higher than usersetup's to restore the page.
    (LP: #523648)
  * Integrate 60mythbuntu target config into myth-passwords now that
    user setup is a plugin.
  * For user-setup's PageDebconf, inherit from PageBase for skeleton
    functions that Page may use.
 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:41:33 -0600