trying to install mythbuntu 14.04 on dell 5150 and it crashed

Bug #1315641 reported by limcearna
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Bug Description

It didn't give me much information except that the installation crashed. I've had several versions of ubuntu, kubuntu and mythbuntu on this machine already

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubiquity 2.18.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.340
Date: Sat May 3 11:21:04 2014
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/mythbuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Mythbuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IE.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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limcearna (limcearna) wrote :
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote : Traceback

Exception during installation:
May 3 09:51:44 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
May 3 09:51:44 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1770, in <module>
May 3 09:51:44 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: install.run()
May 3 09:51:44 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 78, in wrapper
May 3 09:51:44 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: func(self)
May 3 09:51:44 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 204, in run
May 3 09:51:44 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: self.configure_plugins()
May 3 09:51:44 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 570, in configure_plugins
May 3 09:51:44 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: self.run_plugin(plugin)
May 3 09:51:44 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 544, in run_plugin
May 3 09:51:44 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: ret = inst.install(self.target, PluginProgress(self.db))
May 3 09:51:44 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/myth-install-type.py", line 198, in install
May 3 09:51:44 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: self.setup_roles()
May 3 09:51:44 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/myth-install-type.py", line 178, in setup_roles
May 3 09:51:44 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: vnc.create_password(passwd)
May 3 09:51:44 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mythbuntu_common/vnc.py", line 58, in create_password
May 3 09:51:44 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: raise ValueError('Password should be passed as bytes')
May 3 09:51:44 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: ValueError: Password should be passed as bytes
May 3 09:51:44 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py:

tags: added: installer-crash
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
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