Phillip, I no longer have that particular setup, that was over a year ago
:) however, if you follow the trail, many other people have the same issue
on multiple releases of kubuntu with different hardware and disk setups.
one of the recent Me To! reports can probably give you specifics.


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Phillip Susi <email address hidden> wrote:

> There must be something specific about your disk configuration that
> causes this.  Can you post the output of sudo parted -l? ( that is a
> lower case L ).
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1038522
>
> Title:
>   [kde] manual partitioning in installer crashes when handling many
>   partitions
>
> Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
>   Triaged
> Status in “ubiquity” source package in Precise:
>   Triaged
> Status in “ubiquity” source package in Quantal:
>   Won't Fix
> Status in “ubiquity” source package in Trusty:
>   Triaged
>
> Bug description:
>   when choosing manual partitioning, installer crashes when setting mount
> points. after many attempts where the installer just disapeared, I got:
>   Exception in KDE frontend (invoking crash handler):
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File
> "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_components/PartitionModel.py",
> line 105, in parent
>       return self.createIndex(parentItem.row(), 0, parentItem)
>   AttributeError: Partition instance has no attribute 'row'
>
>   Exception in KDE frontend (invoking crash handler):
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File
> "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_components/PartitionModel.py",
> line 100, in parent
>       parentItem = childItem.parent()
>   AttributeError: 'LineWrapMode' object has no attribute 'parent'
>
>   Exception in KDE frontend (invoking crash handler):
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File
> "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_components/PartitionModel.py",
> line 100, in parent
>       parentItem = childItem.parent()
>   AttributeError: 'LineWrapMode' object has no attribute 'parent'
>
>
>   rather frustrating - I can set up 2 or 3 partitions before it crashes. I
> have 2 disks, sda and sdb and it doesn't reliably crash on any particular
> partition or disk. My Machine is currently a dual-boot Kubuntu 10.04 / Win
> 7 Ultimate. I wanted a complete fresh start for 12.04 so I was going to
> format the linux partitions
>
>   sda1 bootable, NTFS
>   sda2  Extended
>   sda5  ext4  /home
>   sda6 ext4  /var
>
>   sdb1 NTFS
>   sdb2 bootable ext4 /boot
>   sdb3 Extended
>   sdb5 ext4   /
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
>   Package: ubiquity 2.10.16
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic-pae 3.2.14
>   Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686
>   ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
>   Architecture: i386
>   CasperVersion: 1.315
>   Date: Sat Aug 18 21:28:52 2012
>   InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/kubuntu.seed
> FRONTEND_BACKGROUND=original boot=casper maybe-ubiquity
> initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
>   LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386
> (20120423)
>   ProcEnviron:
>    LANGUAGE=
>    TERM=xterm
>    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   SourcePackage: ubiquity
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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