ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_ma()

Bug #366664 reported by Piete Brooks
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Nominated for Jaunty by Piete Brooks

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

It didn't ask me if I wanted to import user profiles (I didn't), but tried anyway.
It failed at 88% during "importing documents and settings" -- sigh!!

How should I disable importing users?
Can I import users (/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow) but not copy all of the user files?

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
MediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" - Release i386 (20090420.1)
Package: ubiquity 1.12.12
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity gtk_ui
ProcEnviron: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/proc/15570/environ'
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', 'gtk_ui']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_ma()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UserGroups:

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Piete Brooks (pb--ubuntu-wiki) wrote :
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Piete Brooks (pb--ubuntu-wiki) wrote :

Same as 366645 -- please merge them - Thanks.

tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
visibility: private → public
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Piete Brooks (pb--ubuntu-wiki) wrote :

Attempt to mark it as a duplicate failed - reason was a red dot!

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