live installer crash
Bug #1178910 reported by
Shashank Dev Sondhi
This bug affects 3 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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elementary OS |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
clean-ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I tried to install it but was surprised to see the installer crashing everytime it reached the stage where my pic would be taken from the webcam.
I use the integrated webcam of my system which is a IBM ThinkPad R61. I have an old issue with Wifi in ubuntu which has carried forward to this too so I disabled the wifi connection the second time I tried the installer.
Again it crashed at the very same instance despite the installer having progressed substantially.
I think it is thus related to the webcam being called to take a pic when creating my login profile.
Please help.
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You are probably affected by this bug: https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ ubiquity/ +bug/1082458
The problem is that this got fixed in 13.04 (by removing the webcam feature) and backporting the installer seems not possible without messing around, so i would try to add the boot-parameter modprobe. blacklist= uvcvideo on the live boot medium. This should disable the webcam and prevent ubiquity from crashing.
To add the boot-parameter press any button if you see the "human = keyboard" icon at the bottom of the screen. You'll land at the boot menu with options like "Try without installing" etc. Now press F6 to enable boot-parameter editing and press Esc to close the menu that popups. Now you are able to edit the text at the bottom of the screen (above the options). Insert the text "modprobe. blacklist= uvcvideo" before the "--". imgur.com/ X6cBF81 (note the spaces before and after "http:// imgur.com/ X6cBF81").
The text should look like this afterwards http://
Now press enter and proceed as usual with the installation.
I'll mark this bug as incomplete for now. Please reply if my solution worked that i can transfer this bug into a question on lp as bug-reports disappear.