ubiquity-dm crashed with XStartupError in run() crash while installing 9.10 i386

[cwjolley]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

failure installing 9.10 i386
NV4 motherboard, 4 gigs of ram, no hd (installing to Memorex 8 gig key), Sapphire Radeon HD4670 vid
Only change from several prior installs on this setup are the Memorex key, which is new. and the vid card, also new.
The Radeon for sure works as I just installed Window 7 Pro x64 on it. I haven't used the key before though...

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Dec 27 21:55:33 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ubiquity-dm
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: ubiquity 2.0.8 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/ubiquity-dm vt7 :0 hostname /usr/bin/ubiquity --only
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/ubiquity-dm', 'vt7', ':0', 'hostname', '/usr/bin/ubiquity', '--only']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity-dm crashed with XStartupError in run()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
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