12.04 amd64 installation crashed

[schoeneicher]

I was installing the beta1 of 12.04 amd64 from an multiboot usb stick live cd. After downloading 3rd party libs the installer crashed.

1) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04

2) apt-cache policy ubiquity
ubiquity:
  Installed: 2.9.23
  Candidate: 2.9.31
  Version table:
     2.9.31 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
 *** 2.9.23 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
W: Duplicate sources.list entry cdrom://This/multiboot/ubuntu120464/ precise/main i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/This_multiboot_ubuntu120464_dists_precise_main_binary-i386_Packages)

/var/log/syslog
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: log-output -t ubiquity umount /target/cdrom
Mar 21 19:17:17 this finish-install: Disabling CD in sources.list
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: Exception during installation:
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1690, in <module>
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: install.run()
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: func(self)
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 166, in run
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: self.configure_face()
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 271, in configure_face
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: uid = int(uid)
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py:
Mar 21 19:17:37 this kernel: [ 1150.611722] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PMFB0_SUBP0: 0x037f0010
Mar 21 19:17:37 this kernel: [ 1150.611733] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PMFB0_SUBP1: 0x037f0000
Mar 21 19:17:39 this kernel: [ 1152.390242] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PMFB0_SUBP0: 0x037f0010

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.9.23
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.305
Date: Wed Mar 21 20:18:11 2012
InstallCmdLine: cdrom-detect/try-usb=true noprompt boot=casper floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0 ignore_uuid live-media-path=/multiboot/ubuntu120464/casper/ initrd=/multiboot/ubuntu120464/casper/initrd.lz splash -- BOOT_IMAGE=/multiboot/ubuntu120464/casper/vmlinuz
LiveMediaBuild: This
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
 TERM=unknown
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1690, in <module>
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: install.run()
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: func(self)
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 166, in run
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: self.configure_face()
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 271, in configure_face
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: uid = int(uid)
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
Mar 21 19:17:17 this plugininstall.py:

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. This is reported in bug 947738. and as such I'm marking as duplicate. Could you please answer to Steve's question in comment #5 of the master report.

Thanks in advance.