Location/Timezone picker crashes on install

[Yuri Astrakhan]

During Ubuntu 16.04LTS install, in the "Where are you?" screen, ubiquity crashes with AttributeError in geoname_add_tzdb(): NoneType object has no attribute 'human_country'.

Retyping by hand since this afterwards it crashes the install

Traceback:
File /usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-timezone.py line 165 in geoname_cb
  self.geoname_add_tzdb(text,model)
File /usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-timezone.py line 145 in geoname_add_tzdb
  model.append([name, '', loc.human_country,
AttributeError: NoneType object has no attribute 'human_country'

ApportVersion 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Ubiquity 2.21.63

Repo steps:
* in the text box, erase the value, and start typing "st". It crashes after the letter "s" (freezes, with the crash windows hidden behind the main one)

[Yuri Astrakhan (yuriastrakhan)]

P.S. I might have typed semicolon after "s". Will try to attach logs shortly.

[Yuri Astrakhan (yuriastrakhan)]

Syslog:

May 22 05:31:31 ubuntu ubiquity[1739]: Geoname lookup for ";" failed: 2 Error resolving 'geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com': Temporary failure in name resolution
May 22 05:31:34 ubuntu ubiquity[1739]: Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
May 22 05:31:34 ubuntu ubiquity[1739]: Traceback (most recent call last):
May 22 05:31:34 ubuntu ubiquity[1739]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-timezone.py", line 165, in geoname_cb
May 22 05:31:34 ubuntu ubiquity[1739]: self.geoname_add_tzdb(text, model)
May 22 05:31:34 ubuntu ubiquity[1739]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-timezone.py", line 145, in geoname_add_tzdb
May 22 05:31:34 ubuntu ubiquity[1739]: model.append([name, '', loc.human_country,
May 22 05:31:34 ubuntu ubiquity[1739]: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'human_country'
May 22 05:31:34 ubuntu ubiquity[1739]:
May 22 05:31:34 ubuntu ubiquity: Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"
May 22 05:31:34 ubuntu ubiquity: Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"

debug:

/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-timezone.py:98: PyGIWarning: Soup was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('Soup', '2.4') before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded.
  from gi.repository import Gtk, GObject, GLib, Soup
/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-timezone.py:208: Warning: Source ID 5745 was not found when attempting to remove it
  GLib.source_remove(self.timeout_id)
/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-timezone.py:208: Warning: Source ID 5982 was not found when attempting to remove it
  GLib.source_remove(self.timeout_id)
/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-timezone.py:208: Warning: Source ID 6011 was not found when attempting to remove it
  GLib.source_remove(self.timeout_id)
Could not understand timezone Mexico/Cancun
Could not understand timezone Mexico/Hermosillo
Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-timezone.py", line 165, in geoname_cb
    self.geoname_add_tzdb(text, model)
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-timezone.py", line 145, in geoname_add_tzdb
    model.append([name, '', loc.human_country,
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'human_country'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-timezone.py", line 165, in geoname_cb
    self.geoname_add_tzdb(text, model)
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-timezone.py", line 145, in geoname_add_tzdb
    model.append([name, '', loc.human_country,
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'human_country'
/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-timezone.py:208: Warning: Source ID 6022 was not found when attempting to remove it
  GLib.source_remove(self.timeout_id)
No such schema 'org.mate.SettingsDaemon.plugins.media-keys'

(a11y-profile-manager-indicator:2008): Gdk-WARNING **: a11y-profile-manager-indicator: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 16.10.4

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ubiquity (16.10.4) yakkety; urgency=high

  [ Shih-Yuan Lee (FourDollars) ]
  * Some places doesn't have the location information. (LP: #1584417)

  [ Dimitri John Ledkov ]
  * Fix substitution variables syntax from $() -> ${} in
    translations. (LP: #1603926)
  * Automatic update of included source packages: clock-setup
    0.128ubuntu1, partman-base 187ubuntu3, partman-btrfs 21ubuntu1.

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:12:43 +0100

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Hello Yuri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubiquity into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/2.21.63.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.21.63.2

---------------
ubiquity (2.21.63.2) xenial; urgency=high

  [ Shih-Yuan Lee (FourDollars) ]
  * Some places doesn't have the location information. (LP: #1584417)

  [ Dimitri John Ledkov ]
  * Fix substitution variables syntax from $() -> ${} in
    translations. (LP: #1603926)
  * Automatic update of included source packages: console-setup
    1.108ubuntu15.2, partman-base 187ubuntu2.1.

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 14:28:29 +0100

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

verified that various input locations that used to trigger this bug, no longer freeze ubiquity.