Install crashes after choosing locale

[ShamrockUK]

To reproduce, run the installer and proceed to step 3 where the city is chosen. Selecting London and hitting next crashes the installer - using the Beta 2 live cd.

This is an improvement on the Beta 1 live cd where clicking 'next' did nothing apart from show a busy cursor with no disk activity.

Settings displayed are:

Selected city - London.

Selected region - UK

Time zone - BST (GMT+1:00)

The trace follows:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 1061, in watch_debconf_fd_helper
    return callback(source, debconf_condition)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 150, in process_input
    self.status = self.wait()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 89, in wait
    self.cleanup()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/components/timezone.py", line 63, in cleanup
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/locale.py", line 381, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
Error: unsupported locale setting

[Larry Nguyen (larry-vnlinux)]

I have same bug using Edubuntu beta 2 for PowerPC on G4-533MHz

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 1061, in watch_debconf_fd_helper
    return callback(source, debconf_condition)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 141, in process_input
    if not self.process_line():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 80, in process_line
    return self.dbfilter.process_line()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/debconffilter.py", line 208, in process_line
    if not input_widgets[0].run(priority, question):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/components/kbd_chooser.py", line 59, in run
    self.frontend.set_keyboard_choices(self.choices_display_map(question))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 197, in choices_display_map
    choices = self.choices(question)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 186, in choices
    choices = unicode(self.db.metaget(question, 'choices'), 'utf-8')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-2: invalid data

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

ShamrockUK: thanks for your bug. This is also bug 41846, and has already been fixed in current daily builds.

Larry: you have a completely different bug, not the same one at all. Please file it separately.

[ShamrockUK (uplift)]

Apologies Colin, can't think how I missed the other one. I don't seem to get on with the Launchpad search!

Many thanks for all the work you and the team are doing, Dapper is looking great!