Dapper Flight 7 Live CD Installer Fails on Manually Edit Partition Table

[Sam Range]

On the Flight 7 Live CD installer, using an external, usb hard drive, the following is returned:

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

I was running the live CD installer. When I got to choose where to install, I chose "Manually Edit Partition Table". At this point, the installer crashed with this link and the above information. I intended to install to an external, USB hard drive, but had not yet selected or other wise used it. However, the detection of the drive may be the issue.

[Federico (81joe81)]

I have encountered, too...
I think it's not related with the USB hard-drive: I have no one...
maybe this is the same bug reported here: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/44546

[Sam Range (adminsr)]

yea, it looks identical

On 5/13/06, Federico <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I have encountered, too...
> I think it's not related with the USB hard-drive: I have no one...
> maybe this is the same bug reported here:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/44546
>
> --
> Dapper Flight 7 Live CD Installer Fails on Manually Edit Partition Table
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/44554
>

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[slfd2525 (aseibert)]

Same problem. I manually edited the partition table, and it crashed when the installer tried to format partitions

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 43125, and is fixed in current daily builds (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/current/).