Comment 38 for bug 452208

This bug should have high priority.

When installing Karmic on a friends computer it was stalled at the point that it said "configuring apt." We waited a few minutes and then got this crash report. Then we waited another 2 and there was no movement, so we decided to hit "skip." This resulted in "apt" not being installed on his system.

I'm in here because I just had the same thing happen to me, and had the presence of mind not to hit "skip" this time. This bug will likely cause thousands of newbs like us to hit "skip" at a very important part of the installation process.