Installer failed to import accounts from mounted linux partition and crashed

[Sergey Salnikov]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I have a gutsy installation on sda5, with /home on sda2. There are two normal users there. I tried to install on sda7, re-using that /home and mounting sda5 as /mnt/gutsy. When asked for account import, checked both users (and unchecked "Firefox" for both). When the installer came to that step, it said that I need to unmount the partition first. I pressed "Continue", the same window appeared once again. Then I pressed "Return" and ubiquity crashed immediately.

Expected behavior: detect the situation and just use /etc/* from the mounted partition.

What happened: error message with strange choices (I at first confused "Continue" with "continue installation, ignoring the problem"), and crash after that.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
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/9475/environ'
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', 'gtk_ui']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_ma()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
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