Installer failed to continue

[firebear]

After boot from LiveCD, go on install, error reported after step 5 detected partition informationv

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 1177, in watch_debconf_fd_helper_read
    self.debconf_callbacks[source](source, debconf_condition)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 144, in process_input
    if not self.process_line():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 82, in process_line
    return self.dbfilter.process_line()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/debconffilter.py", line 219, in process_line
    if not input_widgets[0].run(priority, question):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/components/partman.py", line 214, in run
    if not self.frontend.set_disk_choices(self.choices(question),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 189, in choices
    choices = unicode(self.db.metaget(question, 'choices'), 'utf-8')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 144-147: invalid data

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 48732, and occurs due to strange model names on certain disks. This is fixed in dapper-updates, so you can work around it by upgrading all packages with 'ubiquity' in their names on the running live CD before starting the installer.

[Jim MacKenzie (jim-photojim)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
> Vassilis Pandis
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 4:56 AM
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 60003] Re: Installer failed to continue
>
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 48732 ***
>
> Thanks for your report. This is also bug 48732, and occurs due to
> strange model names on certain disks. This is fixed in dapper-updates,
> so you can work around it by upgrading all packages with 'ubiquity' in
> their names on the running live CD before starting the installer.

Thanks. I got around it by installing off the alternate install CD, so all
is well. :) Thanks for the feedback.

Jim

[firebear (firstsct)]

Dear Vassilis,

I had fixed this problem also. I have an external IEEE1394 Hard disk box,
the controller chip is prolific PL3507 with 80G Hitachi disk. The volume is
a one piece NTFS, but with some errors. If I turn on the hd box before
running installer, installer fail. However if I switch it off, installer
could proceeding. Then I turn on hd box any time without fixing error, it
still works as a USB plug icon on desktop.

Tom

On 9/12/06, Vassilis Pandis <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 48732 ***
>
> Thanks for your report. This is also bug 48732, and occurs due to
> strange model names on certain disks. This is fixed in dapper-updates,
> so you can work around it by upgrading all packages with 'ubiquity' in
> their names on the running live CD before starting the installer.
>
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 48732
> Install crash at the time of partitioning
>
> --
> Installer failed to continue
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/60003
>