Dapper Installer Crashed

[yosefrow]

I inserted a freshly burned CD. booted up the liveCD. clicked on the install icon. Entered my locale/language, timezone, name, username and password when prompted. Installler showed progress bar for initializing partioner and then crashed. Traceback is as follows.

We're sorry; the installer crashed. Please file a bug report at https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+filebug and a developer will attend to the problem as soon as possible. To help the developers understand what went wrong, include the following detail in your bug report, and attach the files /var/log/installer/syslog, /var/log/syslog, and /var/log/partman:

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 byte 0x80 in position 152: unexpected code byte

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[yosefrow (yosefrow)]

Dapper (Drake) is version 6.06 LTS

[yosefrow (yosefrow)]

This bug is only displayed when there is a usb flash drive plugged into the computer.

[yosefrow (yosefrow)]

Suggestion: Write an error handler that warns people to remove all usb flash drives before continuing.

[yosefrow (yosefrow)]

the version of Ubuntu that I was using is called Ubuntu 6.06 LTS I thought that this was the same version as Dapper Drake. Hence the reason that I posted the comment "Dapper (Drake) is version 6.06 LTS"

[Martijn van Iersel (martijn-vaniersel)]

I could not confirm this problem with my Lexar jumpdrive 512M flash drive. Have you tried more than one different flash drive?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 48732, and occurs due to strange model names on certain disks.

As you say, removing USB drives can be a workaround for this problem, but I've had reports that were nothing to do with USB drives. I'm just going to fix it properly instead. :-)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

... and as Martijn notes not all USB drives are affected.