Comment 5 for bug 483282

I get the same error message from ubiquity when launching from a "Linux Mint 10" USB (microSD inside a USB adapter) made with Pendrive Linux (www.pendrivelinux.com) running on a 2003 Dell Celeron clunker.

mint@mint ~ $ uname -a
Linux mint 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:34:50 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

mint@mint ~ $ cat /var/log/syslog
Dec 23 17:52:58 mint ubiquity[4866]: Ubiquity 2.4.8-1mint3
Dec 23 17:53:00 mint ubiquity[4866]: log-output -t ubiquity laptop-detect
Dec 23 17:53:03 mint ubiquity[4866]: log-output -t ubiquity fontconfig-voodoo --auto --force --quiet
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]: Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 530, in <module>
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]: main(oem_config)
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 517, in main
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]: install(query=options.query)
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 238, in install
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]: wizard = ui.Wizard(distro)
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py", line 320, in __init__
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]: self.translate_widgets(reget=True)
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py", line 876, in translate_widgets
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]: self.translate_widget(widget[0], lang=lang, prefix=widget[1])
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py", line 882, in translate_widget
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]: text = self.get_string(widget.get_name(), lang, prefix)
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/base.py", line 187, in get_string
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]: return i18n.get_string(name, lang, prefix)
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/i18n.py", line 238, in get_string
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]: text = translations[question]['c']
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]: KeyError: 'c'
Dec 23 17:53:07 mint ubiquity[4866]:

Going to try upgrading the Kernel in case it is some kind of Kernel IO problem (though there isn't anything unusual in /var/log/messages).