Installer crashes right after disk partitioning and formatting

[Nikita Frolov]

The "forward" button in installation summary screen was inactive first time I defined partitions' size. When I returned to custom partitioning screen with "back" and went to summary again, "forward" button was functional. After formatting, installer failed with following message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 1084, in watch_debconf_fd_helper
    return callback(source, debconf_condition)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 143, in process_input
    if not self.process_line():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 81, in process_line
    return self.dbfilter.process_line()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/debconffilter.py", line 219, in process_line
    if not input_widgets[0].run(priority, question):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/components/partman_commit.py", line 123, in run
    ('ubiquity/text/go_back', 'ubiquity/text/continue'))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 1463, in question_dialog
    dialog = gtk.Dialog(title, transient, gtk.DIALOG_MODAL, tuple(buttons))
RuntimeError: first member of each text/response id pair must be a string

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 43012. Perhaps you could follow the instructions I gave down at the end of that bug for producing more information that I need to fix it, and post them to that bug? Thanks in advance.

[Bardon (bill-computassist)]

On Friday, May 12 Colin Watson wrote:
> Thanks for your report. This is also bug 43012. Perhaps you could
> follow the instructions I gave down at the end of that bug for
> producing more information that I need to fix it, and post them to
> that bug? Thanks in advance.

Sorry for filing the duplicate. I did do a search but didn't find 43012.

I have given away the hardware that this bug showed up on. It was
unavoidable. I wish I could keep working on it, but I don't have access
to that machine any more.

I did install Dapper on it, but used the installer CD instead of the
Live CD.

One thing that I didn't think about until after the fact is that I was
not adding any swap partition. The computer has 768MB of RAM and I had
run Breezy for months with no swap, so when I started the Dapper
install, I simply didn't create a swap partition. Maybe this
contributed to the problem?

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