ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_user()

[arrenlex]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Was upgrading from an older version of kubuntu (probably hardy) to the release version of intrepid. I formatted the root partition for a full reinstall but kept windows partitions and my /home. It seems to have crashed after copying files...

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: ubiquity 1.10.10
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity gtk_ui
ProcEnviron: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/proc/13214/environ'
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', 'gtk_ui']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_user()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
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