Kubuntu Flight 7 installer crashes on "Manually edit partition table"

[marble]

On step 6 of 7, I selected 'Manually edit partition table', and got:

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 have 2 disks in this machine (/dev/hda, /dev/hdb), and chose English, Europe/London for language/TZ settings.

[marble (marblepebble)]

There's a very similar line in the next function down, which doesn't have the unicode(..., "utf-8"), so I think perhaps line 771 should read:

if self.manual_choice is None or choice == self.manual_choice:

rather than:
if self.manual_choice is None or unicode(choice, "utf-8") == self.manual_choice:

I can't test this very easily though, since the file is read only on the CD.

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

Fixed in later versions.
You can edit the file using sudo or kdesum.