mythbuntu installer crashes near the end

[mjjj]

I'm not sure if this is the same bug as #98827 or not. I've tried two installs today and it happened at the same spot each time--right toward the end of the process. (I'm submitting this from Chromium on the machine itself: Lenovo T61.)

The first time, I'd removed the hard drive and plugged in an external USB drive, installing from DVD to the whole drive (no manual partitioning). I chose "NVidia" for the graphics driver, rather than "Open Source", and agreed to download updates during install. After rebooting, it wouldn't boot from the external drive, though I suppose that could be a BIOS thing.

The second time, I put the main hard drive back in and made space for Linux (one extended volume containing 6GB swap followed by 160GB or so for root, ext4). I again chose NVidia, but this time I opted not to download updates yet.

We'll see if it's bootable this time.

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 Aug 2 20:34:57 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:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Aug 3 01:34:01 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Aug 3 01:34:01 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1770, in <module>
Aug 3 01:34:01 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: install.run()
Aug 3 01:34:01 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 78, in wrapper
Aug 3 01:34:01 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: func(self)
Aug 3 01:34:01 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 204, in run
Aug 3 01:34:01 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: self.configure_plugins()
Aug 3 01:34:01 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 570, in configure_plugins
Aug 3 01:34:01 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: self.run_plugin(plugin)
Aug 3 01:34:01 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 544, in run_plugin
Aug 3 01:34:01 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: ret = inst.install(self.target, PluginProgress(self.db))
Aug 3 01:34:01 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/myth-install-type.py", line 198, in install
Aug 3 01:34:01 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: self.setup_roles()
Aug 3 01:34:01 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/myth-install-type.py", line 178, in setup_roles
Aug 3 01:34:01 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: vnc.create_password(passwd)
Aug 3 01:34:01 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mythbuntu_common/vnc.py", line 58, in create_password
Aug 3 01:34:01 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: raise ValueError('Password should be passed as bytes')
Aug 3 01:34:01 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py: ValueError: Password should be passed as bytes
Aug 3 01:34:01 mythbuntu /plugininstall.py:

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