Kubuntu 6.06 flight 7 installer crashes when starting manual partitioning

[Oded Arbel]

I don't know what exactly caused it, but except for choosing a Hebrew keyboard (and then having to run kcontrol to set it back to the us layout as the installer only uses the "il" group for a Hebrew layout which preclude writing latin characters) I did a complete standard install, up to step 6 where the installer offered to take control over hda, hdb or let me manually partition. As I have a /home partition which I wanted to keep, I chose "manually edit partition table", at which point I got an "installer crashed" dialog (really cool that it does this), with the following stack trace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 112, in ?
    install(sys.argv[1])
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 52, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 305, in run
    self.process_step()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 719, in process_step
    self.process_disk_selection()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 771, in process_disk_selection
    if self.manual_choice is None or unicode(choice, "utf-8") == self.manual_choice:
TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported

Here are my partition tables:

$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20490559488 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2491 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1275 10241406 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 1276 1339 514080 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 1340 1404 522112+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda4 * 1405 2491 8731327+ 83 Linux

$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hdb

Disk /dev/hdb: 20.5 GB, 20576747520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2501 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 2501 20089251 83 Linux

The first linux partition on hda is /boot on ext2, the second is / on reiser and the one on hdb is /home also on reiser.

[Oded Arbel (oded-geek)]

Well, it crashes also when I choose "american english" as the keyboard layout, so It's obviously not a keyboard layout issue. Same stack trace.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 43125. Your minor keyboard layout issue with Hebrew is also fixed in current daily builds; Ubiquity now sets the keyboard layout to "us,il" and allows Alt+Shift to toggle between the two layouts.