Comment 3 for bug 1777504

Weird... Ubiquity seems to have somehow stopped running as root:

Jun 18 19:36:23 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: warning: failed to open configuration file '/root/.dpkg.cfg' for reading: Permission denied
Jun 18 19:36:24 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: log-output -t ubiquity chroot /target py3compile -p python3 /usr/share/python3/
Jun 18 19:36:24 ubuntu ubiquity: mount: only root can use "--types" option
Jun 18 19:36:24 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: log-output -t ubiquity chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc
Jun 18 19:36:24 ubuntu ubiquity: mount: only root can use "--types" option
Jun 18 19:36:24 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: log-output -t ubiquity chroot /target mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys
Jun 18 19:36:24 ubuntu ubiquity: mount: only root can use "--bind" option
Jun 18 19:36:24 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: log-output -t ubiquity mount --bind /dev /target/dev
Jun 18 19:36:24 ubuntu ubiquity: mount: only root can use "--bind" option
Jun 18 19:36:24 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: log-output -t ubiquity mount --bind /run /target/run
Jun 18 19:36:25 ubuntu ubiquity: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/_ldb_text.pyc.140601394717248'
Jun 18 19:36:25 ubuntu ubiquity: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/_tdb_text.pyc.140601394719536'
Jun 18 19:36:25 ubuntu ubiquity: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lsb_release.pyc.140601394658624'