Installation bug 15.04: Montreal location rejected

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh]

Release after release, Ubuntu refuses to acknowledge the existence of Canada's second largest city.
 When you click on Montreal's location in the map for choosing location during fresh installation of Ubuntu 15.04, it does not give you Montreal.

Worse, if you start typing Montreal, it gives you two options. If you pick either of them, the "Continue" button remains greyed. You may not proceed. This is the second largest city in Canada...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: linux-image-3.19.0-7-generic 3.19.0-7.7 [modified: boot/vmlinuz-3.19.0-7-generic]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-7.7-generic 3.19.0
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.16.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: cpbl 2726 F.... pulseaudio
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Mar 9 11:21:25 2015
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-07 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha amd64 (20150306)
MachineType: LENOVO 34372VU
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.19.0-7-generic root=UUID=6122b2f3-86a4-47d0-9e71-588428e86b7b ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/28/2014
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: GCET99WW (2.59 )
dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
dmi.board.name: 34372VU
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Defined
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrGCET99WW(2.59):bd05/28/2014:svnLENOVO:pn34372VU:pvrThinkPadX230Tablet:rvnLENOVO:rn34372VU:rvrNotDefined:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 34372VU
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X230 Tablet
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
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ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-11-18 (137 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-37.42-generic 4.13.13
Tags: artful
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-37-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

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[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. If you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 1429895

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

apport information

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

apport information

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

apport information

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

apport information

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

apport information

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

I dunno if that did what you wanted (apport), but yes, nothing's changed on this for over a decade !!

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

By the way, for what it's worth, here is what was left behind in the terminal where I ran your apport command:

$ apport-collect 1429895
The authorization page:
 (https://launchpad.net/+authorize-token?oauth_token=xxxxxxx&allow_permission=DESKTOP_INTEGRATION)
should be opening in your browser. Use your browser to authorize
this program to access Launchpad on your behalf.
Waiting to hear from Launchpad about your decision...
Created new window in existing browser session.
[18686:18721:0404/201341.979811:ERROR:browser_gpu_channel_host_factory.cc(120)] Failed to launch GPU process.
dpkg-query: no packages found matching ubiquity
ERROR: hook /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_ubiquity.py crashed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 198, in _run_hook
    symb['add_info'](report, ui)
  File "/usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_ubiquity.py", line 60, in add_info
    syslog = report['UbiquitySyslog'].decode('utf-8', 'ignore')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u201c' in position 273673: ordinal not in range(128)

Thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

60 days? But no one has fixed this in a decade.