ubiquity-dm crashed with IOError in command(): [Errno 32] Broken pipe

[Steve Beattie]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Merely attempted to install the daily amd64 desktop iso, and the installer reproducably crashes.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: ubiquity 2.5.14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-2.29-generic 2.6.38-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-2-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 11 12:44:18 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ubiquity-dm
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110210)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/ubiquity-dm vt7 :0 hostname /usr/bin/ubiquity --greeter --only
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/ubiquity-dm', 'vt7', ':0', 'hostname', '/usr/bin/ubiquity', '--greeter', '--only']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity-dm crashed with IOError in command(): [Errno 32] Broken pipe
UserGroups:

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Reproduced in VM installing Xubuntu 20110328, but the installer go on without problems

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Oops, the installer don't start console-setup

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py", line 581, in <lambda>
     glib.idle_add(lambda: self.dbfilter.start(auto_process=True))
   File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 90, in start
     prep = self.prepare()
   File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-timezone.py", line 338, in prepare
     self.db.fset('time/zone', 'seen', 'false')
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 65, in <lambda>
     lambda *args, **kw: self.command(command, *args, **kw))
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 69, in command
     self.write.write("%s %s\n" % (command, ' '.join(map(str, params))))
 IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Fabio, please file a new bug report. Your bug is not the same as Steve Beattie's.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

In fact, Fabio, your problem is simply the system running out of memory. Please don't mark this as a red bug on iso.qa.ubuntu.com.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Ops, sorry.
reset to new and unsubscribe.
Fabio

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 710582, so it 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.