ubiquity won't start

[karlsebal]

ubiquity won't start at all. neither from terminal nor from gui.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: ubiquity 2.15.20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-11.17-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.336ubuntu1
Date: Fri Oct 4 08:42:25 2013
InstallCmdLine: initrd=/casper/initrd.lz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash -- BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20131003)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UbiquityDebug:
 Ubiquity 2.15.20

 (ubiquity:3471): Pango-WARNING **: error opening config file '/root/.config/pango/pangorc': Permission denied
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[karlsebal (karlsebal)]

This behaviour occures when booted via "try ubuntu". When booted via "install ubuntu" ubiquity is available also after aborting the process and booting into live-system.

[Ioannis Ramfos (isr81)]

This is still an issue for daily live 20131008, running in Virtualbox, for ubiquity 2.15.21.

The same error appears in /var/log/installer/debug
(ubiquity:3446): Pango-WARNING **: error opening config file '/root/.config/pango/pangorc': Permission denied

When creating an empty file /root/.config/pango/pangorc, killing previous (hang) instances of ubiquity and running 'sh -c ubiquity gtk_ui' as root, the debug log stated:

(ubiquity:3714): IBUS-WARNING **: The owner of /home/ubuntu/.config/ibus/bus is not root!

(process:3754): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/home/ubuntu/.cache/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. (repeated a few times)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.