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ubiquity package

Installer crashed.

Bug #57976 reported by Bob McCreadie on 2006-08-28

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #56721: ubiquity (kde) crash at welcome screen. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The installed crashed while attempting to install to hard drive from Live DVD. The following message was produced .:Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 1263, in watch_debconf_fd_helper_read
    self.debconf_callbacks[source](source, debconf_condition)
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 160, in process_input
    if not self.process_line():
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 98, in process_line
    return self.dbfilter.process_line()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/debconffilter.py", line 220, in process_line
    if not input_widgets[0].run(priority, question):
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/components/language.py", line 51, in run
    languagelist = open('/usr/share/localechooser/languagelist')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/localechooser/languagelist'
The version 6.10 was installed using an alternative cd but the adept manager
failed to load. I gave up.
Regards
Bob

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Vassilis Pandis (pandisv) wrote on 2006-08-30:

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 56721, and is fixed in ubiquity 1.1.9. You can work around this problem by upgrading all packages with "ubiquity" in their names on the running live CD before starting the installer.