Comment 3 for bug 1038522

At the request of Andrew Thomas, senior member of linuxquestions.org, I'm adding the information that I gathered when I encountered with KDE installer bug. I've posted information in two other forums while looking for help to get a workaround or fix to the problem. The following are links to the forum threads at linuxmint (Aug-26-2012) and linuxquestions (Sep-2-2012):

- http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-mint-84/mint-13-kde-64-bit-installer-crashes-4175425285/
- http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=111087

I'm attempting to install Mint 13 KDE 64 bit into a 30GB partition (/dev/sda7).
sda1 = Mint 13 Cinnamon 64bit
sda5 = Mint 13 Mate 64bit
sda6 = Mint 13 XFCE 64bit
sda7 = **was for KDE**
sda8 = /home for all linux installs
sda9 = swap

sda1 is the only primary partition
sda5-9 are logical drives
All partitions are 30GB with the exception of the swap being 8GB (rarely used since I have 8GB of RAM).

Only the KDE install fails (from USB keys and DVDs). Prior Linx Mint, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux versions installed without a problem.

Distro: Linux Mint 13 KDE 64 bit
Issue/Bug: The KDE Installer aborts/crashes to the live DVD desktop if the user performs manual partition setup/selection. The bug is not limited to the above distro and may affect 32-bit distro editions as well.

Trace Info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_components/PartitionModel.py", line 100, in parent
    parentItem = childItem.parent()
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'parent'

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I poked around /var/log/installer and found a file named "debug" with the following:
    Ubiquity 2.10.16-1linuxmint4
    Error opening file for reading: Permission denied
    QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
    QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
    debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied
    Ubiquity 2.10.16-1linuxmint4
    Error opening file for reading: Permission denied
    QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
    QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
    QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 16 and type 'Read', disabling...
    QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 16 and type 'Exception', disabling...
    QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 16 and type 'Write', disabling...
    QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 17 and type 'Read', disabling...
    QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 17 and type 'Exception', disabling...
    QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 17 and type 'Write', disabling...
    QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
    QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/mint/.config/ibus/bus
    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()
      File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_components/PartitionModel.py", line 166, in parent
        return self.parentItem
    AttributeError: TreeItem instance has no attribute 'parentItem'

    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: 'list' 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: 'list' object has no attribute 'parent'

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