ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError

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Binary package hint: ubiquity

I have ubstaled Ubuntu to three separate partitions, on two hard drives. The woman I did this for wanted to see bigger letters, so changed Dislay settings to 640x480. And pressd Keep Resojution. There was no way to change it back, because Window was too tall and could not be reached at botom. She called me. I have never tried to resolve an issue like this, and found no help. Anyway, I wanted to take a short at /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but there was no backup and no settings inside. I did something wrong, because the partition suddenly got errors. Each reboot left me in trouble at a tty1 state, with no idea of how to revover. I tried the boot recover ethod, but did nothing to help. Booting from the other two partitons also failed because of some apparent defect now on this partition. Why have it that a partition will only boot if no errors are found on any partition? How does that help? Recovery should at least point you to what is preventing a proper boot, and give you real tools to work with for any possible defect related to an install on another partition. The way you have it, the only option is to go back to the LIveCD, which I did. But so far I have had to reinstall on the 1st partition 5 times, and the 3nd 3, until i realized that possibly the 3rd partition was preventing these from working by some twisted assiciation, so I reinstalled to the 3rd, which worked, and the same with the 1st, and that worked, but the 2nd is still hosing up with this error. The only thing I asked of the 1st and 2nd is to let me keep my /home folder, so no reformat done one them. I guess a reformat is now due, because it always fails at tis point. What is there under /home that you maintain that cuts into a reinstall and keeps it from working properly? In this respect, Ubuntu is just as inept as Windows ever was.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
MediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" - Release i386 (20090420.1)
Package: ubiquity 1.12.12
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity gtk_ui
ProcEnviron: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/proc/5549/environ'
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', 'gtk_ui']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_user()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
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