ubiquity crashed with ValueError in command()

[RobertFullarton]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I was installing mythbuntu from the mythbuntu 9.04 cd, I got this error message when the install was at 90%

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
MediaBuild: Mythbuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" - Release i386 (20090420.1)
Package: ubiquity 1.12.12
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity mythbuntu_ui
ProcEnviron: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/proc/5694/environ'
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', 'mythbuntu_ui']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with ValueError in command()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UserGroups:

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

It looks like one of these caused the debconf to fail:

 - mythtv user
 - mythtv password
 - mythtv database
 - mythtv sql host

Did any of them have non alphanumeric characters in them by chance? Or maybe spaces?

[RobertFullarton (robert-fullartons)]

no spaces or funny characters are used. Standard user and database names, the sql host is just 192.168.0.71
and the password is the automatically generated one.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Can you rerun ubiquity in debug mode then (ubiquity -d)? We'll need the logs
from /var/log/installer/* and /var/log/syslog after doing so.

Be sure to choose passwords that you dont mind being posted to the bug as
they will be included in the debug logs.

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 00:31, RobertFullarton <email address hidden>wrote:

> no spaces or funny characters are used. Standard user and database names,
> the sql host is just 192.168.0.71
> and the password is the automatically generated one.
>
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> ubiquity crashed with ValueError in command()
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/374377
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Mario Limonciello
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[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Closing due to lack of response.