Doesn't display verbose data, and skip button is present at all stages

[Russell Richardson]

While installing Ubuntu using Ubiquity, you'll notice that when you click the drop down arrow to see what's going on, that it never displays verbose information, and the skip button is present at all times.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Sun Jan 15 13:58:53 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Jan 15 13:32:18 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jan 15 13:32:18 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1641, in <module>
Jan 15 13:32:18 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Jan 15 13:32:18 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
Jan 15 13:32:18 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Jan 15 13:32:18 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 164, in run
Jan 15 13:32:18 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.run_target_config_hooks()
Jan 15 13:32:18 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 605, in run_target_config_hooks
Jan 15 13:32:18 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.db.progress('STEP', 1)
Jan 15 13:32:18 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 60, in <lambda>
Jan 15 13:32:18 ubuntu plugininstall.py: lambda *args, **kw: self.command(command, *args, **kw))
Jan 15 13:32:18 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 81, in command
Jan 15 13:32:18 ubuntu plugininstall.py: status = int(status)
Jan 15 13:32:18 ubuntu plugininstall.py: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
Jan 15 13:32:18 ubuntu plugininstall.py: