[Precise] Installation freezes after "Who are you?" (Ubiquity hangs in ubi-webcam.py)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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High
|
Canonical Foundations Team |
Bug Description
During installation, after entering the user information, the installer slows down to a crawl and the status bar (which says "Copying files") stops. Upon switching VT to 2 and back to 7, the window contents is not updated. Checking with top, the ubiquity process first uses 100 % CPU and eats memory, and after a while it uses e 750 M (of 1 G) of real memory and 3.5 G (of 4.0 G) of virtual memory causing massive swapping.
The hang occurs when loading the page titled ubiquity/
In UbiquityDebug.txt, the following error message occurs twice:
Error opening file for reading: Permission denied
I have traced the origin to ubi-webcam.py as well, in __init__(): They come from the calls
Gst.init(sys.argv)
(sys.argv here resolves to ['/usr/
and
self.faceselector = gtkwidgets.
Workaround:
Before starting the installer, run the following command in a terminal:
sudo rm /usr/lib/
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.296DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111227)
Package: ubiquity 2.9.10
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
Tags: precise running-unity ubiquity-2.9.10
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-7-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
description: | updated |
summary: |
- [Precise] Ubiquity uses up all memory and hangs during installation + [Precise] Ubiquity hangs in ubi-webcam.py |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- [Precise] Ubiquity hangs in ubi-webcam.py + [Precise] Installation freezes after "Who are you?" (Ubiquity hangs in + ubi-webcam.py) |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) |
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