crashes due to non-UTF-8 data coming back from debconf

[Gláuber Gonçalves]

As the installer sugested, I'm reporting this bug. It happens just after I choose username and password, when I get to the "select a disk" step. I get the following lines:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 1169, in watch_debconf_fd_helper
    return callback(source, debconf_condition)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 144, in process_input
    if not self.process_line():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 82, 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.py", line 214, in run
    if not self.frontend.set_disk_choices(self.choices(question),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 189, in choices
    choices = unicode(self.db.metaget(question, 'choices'), 'utf-8')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 101-102: invalid data

[Gláuber Gonçalves (glaubergoncalves)]

Attachment sugested by the installer report when it crashed.

[Gláuber Gonçalves (glaubergoncalves)]

Attachment sugested by the installer report when it crashed.

[Gláuber Gonçalves (glaubergoncalves)]

Attachment sugested by the installer report when it crashed.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I suspect this may have something to do with selecting Brazilian Portuguese in the graphical CD boot loader. Try just leaving it at English there, but selecting Brazilian Portuguese in the installer?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Looks like this is the same underlying issue as bug 44595.

[Gláuber Gonçalves (glaubergoncalves)]

Hi, thanks for answering, and sorry if I made a duplicate entry. I made it through the installation process by now (two times actually), even using Brazilian Portuguese language in the graphical CD boot loader. This bug seems to afect the installer at random. But in the last two times it did, I didn't get any reports from the installer, it just got stuck after I've checked the "edit particions manually" box and clicked "next", then I had to reboot the system. But after some tries, I've been able to complete the installation!

Thanks for your attention.
Gláuber.

[Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez)]

@ Gláuber

Don't worry for the duplicates. Currently, it is not easy to tell the exact reasons of a crash from the backtrace and thus it is better to open a new bug report than to introduce confusion in one already opened. Thanks for your bug report anyway. We are glad that you were able to install Ubuntu and we hope that you enjoy it.

[Gláuber Gonçalves (glaubergoncalves)]

I certainly will (enjoy it). I've been using Ubuntu for about 2 months (started with 5.10), and intend to keep going on. Thanks again!