Existing mythbuntu installation home directory crashes installer

[nik.martin]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

on an AMD64 install, ubiquity crashes near the end of the install. No advanced or non-default changes were made to any install questions, except I manually configured my partitions, since I'm switching to mythbuntu from ubuntu+mythtv, and want to preserve my /home partition, where all my recordings are. syslog and partman are attached

[nik.martin (nik-martin)]

The install is at 83% when the crash happens, and the text in the progress dialog states:
"configuring mythtv"

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

So the username that you had on the previous installation, was this also 'nik'? Did he have a ~/.config/ directory already made? Worse off, did he have ~/.config/autostart/mythtv.desktop?

[nik.martin (nik-martin)]

The previous username is 'nik', and it is an Ubuntu 7.04 + MythTV box, so there is quite possibly a ~/.config/autostart/mythtv.desktop. I will confirm the second question.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

If there isn't, can you check the permissions on that folder? I suspect
that it was only writable by the old uid 'nik'. (Which we can override if
that is where the problem is)

On Dec 3, 2007 11:25 AM, nik.martin <email address hidden> wrote:

> The previous username is 'nik', and it is an Ubuntu 7.04 + MythTV box,
> so there is quite possibly a ~/.config/autostart/mythtv.desktop. I will
> confirm the second question.
>
> --
> ubiquity crashes on install
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173378
> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
>

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[nik.martin (nik-martin)]

I re-ran install, picking a username other than "Nik", and install completed sucessfully. The owner of ~/Nik is 1000/1000, so it was probably a uid conflict between the old Nik account and the new one. All is well now.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

evan and colin: should ubiquity normally be able to allow you to reuse
a username? i am not sure if this is caused by the mythbuntu changes
at a first glance.

On 12/3/07, nik.martin <email address hidden> wrote:
> I re-ran install, picking a username other than "Nik", and install
> completed sucessfully. The owner of ~/Nik is 1000/1000, so it was
> probably a uid conflict between the old Nik account and the new one.
> All is well now.
>
> --
> ubiquity crashes on install
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173378
> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
>

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Mario Limonciello
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[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Thanks for reporting this. It's been fixed in bzr revno 2385.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

ubiquity (1.7.2) hardy; urgency=low

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * XS-Vcs-Bzr is now Vcs-Bzr.
  * Strip out support for creating multiple users in migration-assistant.
  * Save state in between runs of migration-assistant (LP: #151126).
  * Added partman/check.d/03partition_too_small to warn the user when a
    partition isn't large enough to contain the respective part of /rofs
    (LP: #48355).
  * Modified scripts/install.py to handle ENOSPC.
  * Tore out partition_help. This may be replaced by more detailed help text,
    viewable by pressing a help button.
  * Don't set can_focus on the timezone combo box as it prevents you from
    tabbing back out of it. Thanks Sebastien (LP: #136665).

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Copy xserver-xorg/config/display/modes to the installed system before
    reconfiguring usplash (LP: #150930).
  * Update for apt-setup 1:0.31ubuntu1.
  * Update d-i/update-control to work with the new Dpkg::Deps module in
    dpkg-dev 1.14.8.
  * Update partman extensions to cope with changes in partman-base 114
    (/lib/partman/definitions.sh -> /lib/partman/lib/base.sh).
  * Automatic update of included source packages: apt-setup 1:0.31ubuntu2,
    base-installer 1.86ubuntu1, debian-installer-utils 1.50ubuntu1,
    partman-auto 73ubuntu1, partman-base 114ubuntu1, partman-basicmethods
    36, partman-efi 14ubuntu1, partman-partitioning 54ubuntu1.

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Correct a small typo in mythbuntu template. (LP: #155194)
  * Don't allow mythbuntu remote configuration pages to progress
    when "Other Remote" is selected. (LP: #157233)
  * Check for files related to mythbuntu autostart rather than assuming
    they don't already exist. (LP: #173378)
  * Don't allow the user to progress on non mythbuntu master backend roles
    unless they test their connection. (LP: #164979)
  * Allow dvb-utils to be selected during installation (LP: #130924)
  * Allow hdhomerun configuration to be installed. (LP: #153065)

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:05:15 +0000

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Fixed in Mythbuntu 8.04 Alpha 1