Installer crashed during device scan when preparing to set up partitions

[Jim MacKenzie]

Two separate attempts to install ubuntu resulted in the same error.

dmesg:
[4294667.296000] Linux version 2.6.15-23-386 (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1 PREEMPT Tue May 23 13:49:40 UTC 2006
[4294667.296000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e7000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002fffdc00 (usable)
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000002fffdc00 - 000000002ffffc00 (ACPI data)
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000002ffffc00 - 0000000030000000 (ACPI NVS)
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe7000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[4294667.296000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[4294667.296000] 767MB LOWMEM available.
[4294667.296000] On node 0 totalpages: 196605
[4294667.296000] DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
[4294667.296000] DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
[4294667.296000] Normal zone: 192509 pages, LIFO batch:31
[4294667.296000] HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
[4294667.296000] DMI 2.1 present.
[4294667.296000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f6b00
[4294667.296000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x00000000 PTL 0x01000000) @ 0x2fffdd5d
[4294667.296000] ACPI: FADT (v001 INTEL SEATTLE2 0x19990714 PTL 0x000f4240) @ 0x2ffffb8c
[4294667.296000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 Intel S2440BX 0x00000000 MSFT 0x01000004) @ 0x00000000
[4294667.296000] ACPI: BIOS age (1999) fails cutoff (2000), acpi=force is required to enable ACPI
[4294667.296000] ACPI: Disabling ACPI support
[4294667.296000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 30000000:cffe7000)
[4294667.296000] Built 1 zonelists
[4294667.296000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/ram rw quiet splash --
[4294667.296000] Local APIC disabled by BIOS (or by default) -- you can enable it with "lapic"
[4294667.296000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (01603000)
[4294667.296000] Initializing CPU#0
[4294667.296000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Detected 449.081 MHz processor.
[ 43.622873] Using tsc for high-res timesource
[ 43.624413] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[ 43.627188] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[ 43.630482] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 43.736549] Memory: 768692k/786420k available (1976k kernel code, 17112k reserved, 606k data, 288k init, 0k highmem)
[ 43.736566] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[ 43.795889] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 898.87 BogoMIPS (lpj=449437)
[ 43.796013] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[ 43.796044] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[ 43.796099] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 43.796447] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0387f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 43.796479] CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0387f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 43.796513] CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
[ 43.796525] CPU: L2 cache: 512K
[ 43.796534] CPU serial number disabled.
[ 43.796544] CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 43.796607] mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
[ 43.796625] CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
[ 43.796641] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[ 43.796651] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[ 43.796666] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[ 43.800549] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[ 47.398020] Freeing initrd memory: 6838k freed
[ 47.439466] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 47.439579] EISA bus registered
[ 47.439978] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9b4, last bus=1
[ 47.440001] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[ 47.441560] ACPI: Subsystem revision 20051216
[ 47.441570] ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
[ 47.441583] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[ 47.441610] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
[ 47.441625] PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
[ 47.441680] PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f6b80
[ 47.441695] PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x9e5e, dseg 0x400
[ 47.450965] PnPBIOS: 18 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 18 recorded by driver
[ 47.451017] PCI: Probing PCI hardware
[ 47.451036] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[ 47.451591] PCI quirk: region 8000-803f claimed by PIIX4 ACPI
[ 47.451606] PCI quirk: region 7000-700f claimed by PIIX4 SMB
[ 47.452345] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
[ 47.454716] PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 0000:00:07.0
[ 47.457763] pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x370-0x371 has been reserved
[ 47.457807] pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
[ 47.457821] pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x8000-0x803f has been reserved
[ 47.457835] pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x7000-0x700f has been reserved
[ 47.458888] PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@fc000000 for 0000:01:00.0
[ 47.458959] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
[ 47.458967] IO window: disabled.
[ 47.458982] MEM window: f1000000-f1ffffff
[ 47.458995] PREFETCH window: f8000000-fbffffff
[ 47.461282] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 47.461316] audit(1157373305.505:1): initialized
[ 47.461713] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[ 47.461802] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 47.461991] Initializing Cryptographic API
[ 47.462010] io scheduler noop registered
[ 47.462036] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[ 47.462080] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 47.462124] io scheduler cfq registered
[ 47.462138] Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
[ 47.462771] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[ 47.821182] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 47.906463] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303,PNP0f13] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[ 47.922156] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[ 47.923984] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 47.924173] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 47.925095] serial8250: ttyS3 at I/O 0x2e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[ 47.938283] pnp: Device 00:0e activated.
[ 47.938671] 00:0e: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 47.942480] pnp: Device 00:0f activated.
[ 47.942853] 00:0f: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[ 47.945420] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 1048576K size 1024 blocksize
[ 47.945644] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[ 47.945660] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[ 47.946209] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 47.948598] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[ 47.948622] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
[ 47.948666] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 7
[ 47.948677] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 8
[ 47.948686] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[ 47.948867] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 47.959994] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 47.961542] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[ 47.966460] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 47.968919] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
[ 47.968936] TCP reno registered
[ 47.969314] TCP bic registered
[ 47.969348] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 47.969375] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[ 47.969384] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[ 47.969458] Using IPI Shortcut mode
[ 47.969603] Freeing unused kernel memory: 288k freed
[ 47.987932] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
[ 48.204301] vga16fb: initializing
[ 48.204329] vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
[ 48.350947] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x25
[ 48.350967] fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
[ 49.546156] Capability LSM initialized
[ 51.367468] PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
[ 51.367512] PIIX4: chipset revision 1
[ 51.367522] PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[ 51.367550] ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1000-0x1007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
[ 51.367592] ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1008-0x100f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
[ 51.367621] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[ 51.631125] hda: Maxtor 4R120L0, ATA DISK drive
[ 52.038918] hdb: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8162B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[ 52.092229] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[ 52.093130] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[ 52.764541] hdc: BENQ DVD DD DW1620, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[ 53.478197] hdd: ATAPI CDRW 52X32, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[ 53.529692] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
[ 53.577823] hda: max request size: 128KiB
[ 53.608161] hda: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33)
[ 53.608344] hda: cache flushes supported
[ 53.608476] hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
[ 53.676229] hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33)
[ 53.676282] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 53.736780] hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
[ 53.749660] hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2083kB Cache, UDMA(33)
[ 54.254522] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
[ 54.255489] usbcore: registered new driver hub
[ 54.265950] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0e.2 (0114 -> 0116)
[ 54.265976] PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:0e.2
[ 54.265998] PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:07.2
[ 54.266023] PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:10.0
[ 54.266060] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0e.2: EHCI Host Controller
[ 54.291987] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0e.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 54.292022] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0e.2: irq 9, io mem 0xf0000400
[ 54.292048] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0e.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[ 54.299793] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 54.299842] hub 1-0:1.0: 5 ports detected
[ 54.335195] ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
[ 54.515631] ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
[ 54.516593] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0e.0 (0114 -> 0116)
[ 54.516615] PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:0e.0
[ 54.516682] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0e.0: OHCI Host Controller
[ 54.517275] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0e.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 54.517309] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0e.0: irq 10, io mem 0xf0001000
[ 54.525282] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
[ 54.526305] PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:07.2
[ 54.526339] PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:0e.2
[ 54.526354] PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:10.0
[ 54.526383] uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
[ 54.527052] uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[ 54.527083] uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 9, io base 0x00001020
[ 54.528238] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 54.528284] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 54.629978] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 54.630028] hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
[ 54.730890] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0e.1 (0114 -> 0116)
[ 54.730911] PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:0e.1
[ 54.730946] PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:0f.0
[ 54.730993] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0e.1: OHCI Host Controller
[ 54.731470] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0e.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[ 54.731502] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0e.1: irq 9, io mem 0xf0002000
[ 54.813358] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 54.813422] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 54.834380] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 54.921538] ohci1394: $Rev: 1313 $ Ben Collins <email address hidden>
[ 54.921577] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:10.0 (0114 -> 0116)
[ 54.921598] PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:10.0
[ 54.921620] PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:07.2
[ 54.921641] PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:0e.2
[ 54.922748] ohci1394: fw-host0: Unexpected PCI resource length of 1000!
[ 54.958137] hub 3-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 54.960031] hub 3-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 54.974056] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[9] MMIO=[f0003000-f00037ff] Max Packet=[2048]
[ 55.272187] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 55.568273] usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
[ 55.784907] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
[ 55.945274] hiddev96: USB HID v1.00 Device [Lexmark 4200 Series] on usb-0000:00:07.2-2
[ 55.945383] usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
[ 55.945395] drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[ 56.007598] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 56.019312] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 56.117440] usb 3-1.3: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[ 56.132994] hdb: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[ 56.133015] hdb: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
[ 56.133031] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[ 56.133045] end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 1429184
[ 56.133061] Buffer I/O error on device hdb, logical block 357296
[ 56.228986] hdb: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[ 56.229005] hdb: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
[ 56.229020] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[ 56.229032] end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 1429184
[ 56.229046] Buffer I/O error on device hdb, logical block 357296
[ 56.252617] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00000100000e01ba]
[ 56.325249] hdb: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[ 56.325272] hdb: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
[ 56.325288] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[ 56.325304] end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 1429184
[ 56.325321] Buffer I/O error on device hdb, logical block 357296
[ 56.421585] hdb: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[ 56.421604] hdb: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
[ 56.421619] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[ 56.421631] end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 1429184
[ 56.421645] Buffer I/O error on device hdb, logical block 357296
[ 56.517525] hdb: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[ 56.517544] hdb: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
[ 56.517559] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[ 56.517571] end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 1429184
[ 56.517585] Buffer I/O error on device hdb, logical block 357296
[ 56.605662] hdb: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[ 56.605681] hdb: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
[ 56.605696] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[ 56.605708] end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 1429184
[ 56.605722] Buffer I/O error on device hdb, logical block 357296
[ 56.738181] hiddev97: USB HID v1.10 Device [APC Back-UPS ES 350 FW:800.e5.D USB FW:e5] on usb-0000:00:07.2-1.3
[ 56.783991] hdb: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[ 56.784014] hdb: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
[ 56.784030] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[ 56.784046] end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 1429176
[ 56.784063] Buffer I/O error on device hdb, logical block 357294
[ 56.880270] hdb: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[ 56.880295] hdb: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
[ 56.880311] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[ 56.880327] end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 1429180
[ 56.880344] Buffer I/O error on device hdb, logical block 357295
[ 56.909033] usb 3-1.4: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
[ 56.976006] hdb: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[ 56.976026] hdb: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
[ 56.976041] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[ 56.976053] end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 1429176
[ 56.976066] Buffer I/O error on device hdb, logical block 357294
[ 57.057103] input: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse as /class/input/input1
[ 57.057183] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:07.2-1.4
[ 57.067640] scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 57.068442] usb-storage: device found at 2
[ 57.068454] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 57.068556] usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
[ 57.068568] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 57.080308] hdb: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[ 57.080332] hdb: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
[ 57.080348] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[ 57.080364] end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 1429180
[ 57.080382] Buffer I/O error on device hdb, logical block 357295
[ 57.491577] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[ 57.526732] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
[ 57.594701] loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
[ 57.639079] Registering unionfs 1.1.2
[ 57.800920] squashfs: version 3.0prerelease (2006/1/24) Phillip Lougher
[ 62.211433] Vendor: Model: Rev:
[ 62.211479] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
[ 62.238502] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[ 62.836483] Vendor: Model: Rev:
[ 62.836530] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
[ 62.860412] SCSI device sda: 31808 512-byte hdwr sectors (16 MB)
[ 62.873422] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 62.873441] sda: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
[ 62.873452] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[ 62.890103] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 62.902369] SCSI device sda: 31808 512-byte hdwr sectors (16 MB)
[ 62.915371] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 62.915386] sda: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
[ 62.915396] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[ 62.915419] sda: sda1
[ 62.957199] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
[ 63.004189] sd 0:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
[ 139.106293] via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker
[ 139.107267] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0d.0 (0114 -> 0117)
[ 139.107289] PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0d.0
[ 139.107329] PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:01:00.0
[ 139.113247] eth0: VIA Rhine III at 0x11400, 00:05:5d:80:ab:97, IRQ 11.
[ 139.113986] eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7869 advertising 05e1 Link 45e1.
[ 199.741770] ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
[ 200.021413] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 200.021497] sd 0:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 200.662817] eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
[ 201.866923] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 206.307308] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 206.307806] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 206.308367] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[ 208.014944] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[ 208.040898] agpgart: Detected an Intel 440BX Chipset.
[ 208.048058] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf4000000
[ 208.194705] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 208.218615] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 210.894749] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: Found 0000:00:07.3 device
[ 211.976807] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
[ 212.303938] drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x043D pid 0x008A
[ 212.304067] usbcore: registered new driver usblp
[ 212.304080] drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
[ 213.534129] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
[ 215.698454] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[ 215.698507] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
[ 215.935712] parport0: faking semi-colon
[ 215.935763] parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 1100
[ 216.082309] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 216.245329] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[ 216.613396] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0f.0 (0104 -> 0105)
[ 216.613421] PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:0f.0
[ 216.613452] PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:0e.1
[ 216.641331] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 219.981197] Adding 1429776k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1429776k
[ 220.872447] md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
[ 220.872465] md: bitmap version 4.39
[ 222.141457] device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: <email address hidden>
[ 223.927257] cdrom: open failed.
[ 226.099125] cdrom: open failed.
[ 226.103709] cdrom: open failed.

/var/log/installer/syslog:
Ubiquity 1.0.12
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:40:23 INFO switched to page stepLanguage
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/localechooser']' for ubiquity.components.language.Language
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^languagechooser/language-name
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:40:34 INFO Step_before = stepLanguage
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:40:39 INFO switched to page stepLocation
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:40:39 INFO Step_after = stepLocation
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$

(time-admin:6672): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:41:22 INFO Step_before = stepLocation
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:41:22 INFO switched to page stepKeyboardConf
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:41:22 INFO Step_after = stepKeyboardConf
ubiquity: kbd-chooser prepare
ubiquity: Starting up '['/bin/sh', '-c', '. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule; exec /usr/lib/ubiquity/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser']' for ubiquity.components.kbd_chooser.KbdChooser
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^kbd-chooser/method$, ^console-keymaps.*/keymap$, ERROR
ubiquity: apply_keyboard: us
ubiquity: apply_keyboard: layout us, model pc104
ubiquity: Display map: {u'Swedish': u'se-latin1', u'Icelandic': u'is-latin1', u'Estonian': u'et', u'Romanian': u'ro', u'Italian': u'it', u'Latin American': u'la-latin1', u'Dutch': u'nl', u'Brazilian (EUA layout)': u'br-latin1', u'Belgian': u'be2-latin1', u'Danish': u'dk-latin1', u'Bulgarian': u'bg', u'Turkish (F layout)': u'trfu', u'Hungarian': u'hu', u'Macedonian': u'mk', u'Lithuanian': u'lt', u'French': u'fr-latin9', u'Norwegian': u'no-latin1', u'Slovakian': u'sk-qwerty', u'Russian': u'ru', u'Dvorak': u'dvorak', u'Slovene': u'slovene', u'Finnish': u'fi-latin1', u'British English': u'uk', u'Spanish': u'es', u'Greek': u'gr', u'Canadian French': u'cf', u'Latvian': u'lv-latin4', u'American English': u'us', u'Croatian': u'croat', u'Portuguese': u'pt-latin1', u'Czech': u'cz-lat2', u'Ukrainian': u'ua', u'Japanese': u'jp106', u'Belarusian': u'by', u'Turkish (Q layout)': u'trqu', u'German': u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'Hebrew': u'hebrew', u'Polish': u'pl', u'Brazilian (ABNT2 layout)': u'br-abnt2', u'Swiss French': u'fr_CH-latin1', u'Swiss German': u'sg-latin1', u'Serbian (Cyrillic)': u'sr-cy'}
ubiquity: Untranslated choices: [u'by', u'bg', u'croat', u'cz-lat2', u'sg-latin1', u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'dk-latin1', u'us', u'uk', u'dvorak', u'et', u'es', u'la-latin1', u'fi-latin1', u'fr-latin9', u'be2-latin1', u'cf', u'fr_CH-latin1', u'gr', u'hebrew', u'hu', u'is-latin1', u'it', u'lt', u'lv-latin4', u'jp106', u'mk', u'no-latin1', u'nl', u'pl', u'pt-latin1', u'br-abnt2', u'br-latin1', u'ro', u'ru', u'sk-qwerty', u'slovene', u'sr-cy', u'se-latin1', u'trfu', u'trqu', u'ua']
ubiquity: Choices: [u'Belarusian', u'Bulgarian', u'Croatian', u'Czech', u'Swiss German', u'German', u'Danish', u'American English', u'British English', u'Dvorak', u'Estonian', u'Spanish', u'Latin American', u'Finnish', u'French', u'Belgian', u'Canadian French', u'Swiss French', u'Greek', u'Hebrew', u'Hungarian', u'Icelandic', u'Italian', u'Lithuanian', u'Latvian', u'Japanese', u'Macedonian', u'Norwegian', u'Dutch', u'Polish', u'Portuguese', u'Brazilian (ABNT2 layout)', u'Brazilian (EUA layout)', u'Romanian', u'Russian', u'Slovakian', u'Slovene', u'Serbian (Cyrillic)', u'Swedish', u'Turkish (F layout)', u'Turkish (Q layout)', u'Ukrainian']
ubiquity: console-keymaps-at/keymap db: us
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:41:37 INFO Step_before = stepKeyboardConf
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:41:37 INFO switched to page stepUserInfo
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:41:37 INFO Step_after = stepUserInfo
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/user-setup/user-setup-ask', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.usersetup.UserSetup
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^passwd/user-fullname$, ^passwd/username$, ^passwd/user-password$, ^passwd/user-password-again$, ERROR
ON STATE: 1
ON STATE: 2
ON STATE: 3
ON STATE: 4
ON STATE: 5
ON STATE: 6
ON STATE: 7
ON STATE: 8
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:41:56 INFO Step_before = stepUserInfo
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:41:56 INFO switched to page stepPartDisk
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:41:56 INFO Step_after = stepPartDisk
ubiquity: Starting up '/bin/partman' for ubiquity.components.partman.Partman
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^partman-auto/select_disk$, ^partman-auto/.*automatically_partition$, ^partman-partitioning/new_size$, ^partman/choose_partition$, ^partman/confirm.*, type:boolean, ERROR, PROGRESS
unsupported
kernelmodules_basicfilesystems
kernelmodules_ext3
kernelmodules_jfs
kernelmodules_reiserfs
kernelmodules_xfs
umount_target
parted
dump
update_partitions
filesystems_detected
auto_mountpoints
autouse_swap
backup
Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
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 97: unexpected code byte

Ubiquity 1.0.12
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:43:26 INFO switched to page stepLanguage
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/localechooser']' for ubiquity.components.language.Language
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^languagechooser/language-name
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:43:41 INFO Step_before = stepLanguage
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:43:47 INFO switched to page stepLocation
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:43:47 INFO Step_after = stepLocation
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:44:05 INFO Step_before = stepLocation
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:44:05 INFO switched to page stepKeyboardConf
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:44:05 INFO Step_after = stepKeyboardConf
ubiquity: kbd-chooser prepare
ubiquity: Starting up '['/bin/sh', '-c', '. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule; exec /usr/lib/ubiquity/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser']' for ubiquity.components.kbd_chooser.KbdChooser
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^kbd-chooser/method$, ^console-keymaps.*/keymap$, ERROR
ubiquity: apply_keyboard: us
ubiquity: apply_keyboard: layout us, model pc104
ubiquity: Display map: {u'Swedish': u'se-latin1', u'Icelandic': u'is-latin1', u'Estonian': u'et', u'Romanian': u'ro', u'Italian': u'it', u'Latin American': u'la-latin1', u'Dutch': u'nl', u'Brazilian (EUA layout)': u'br-latin1', u'Belgian': u'be2-latin1', u'Danish': u'dk-latin1', u'Bulgarian': u'bg', u'Turkish (F layout)': u'trfu', u'Hungarian': u'hu', u'Macedonian': u'mk', u'Lithuanian': u'lt', u'French': u'fr-latin9', u'Norwegian': u'no-latin1', u'Slovakian': u'sk-qwerty', u'Russian': u'ru', u'Dvorak': u'dvorak', u'Slovene': u'slovene', u'Finnish': u'fi-latin1', u'British English': u'uk', u'Spanish': u'es', u'Greek': u'gr', u'Canadian French': u'cf', u'Latvian': u'lv-latin4', u'American English': u'us', u'Croatian': u'croat', u'Portuguese': u'pt-latin1', u'Czech': u'cz-lat2', u'Ukrainian': u'ua', u'Japanese': u'jp106', u'Belarusian': u'by', u'Turkish (Q layout)': u'trqu', u'German': u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'Hebrew': u'hebrew', u'Polish': u'pl', u'Brazilian (ABNT2 layout)': u'br-abnt2', u'Swiss French': u'fr_CH-latin1', u'Swiss German': u'sg-latin1', u'Serbian (Cyrillic)': u'sr-cy'}
ubiquity: Untranslated choices: [u'by', u'bg', u'croat', u'cz-lat2', u'sg-latin1', u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'dk-latin1', u'us', u'uk', u'dvorak', u'et', u'es', u'la-latin1', u'fi-latin1', u'fr-latin9', u'be2-latin1', u'cf', u'fr_CH-latin1', u'gr', u'hebrew', u'hu', u'is-latin1', u'it', u'lt', u'lv-latin4', u'jp106', u'mk', u'no-latin1', u'nl', u'pl', u'pt-latin1', u'br-abnt2', u'br-latin1', u'ro', u'ru', u'sk-qwerty', u'slovene', u'sr-cy', u'se-latin1', u'trfu', u'trqu', u'ua']
ubiquity: Choices: [u'Belarusian', u'Bulgarian', u'Croatian', u'Czech', u'Swiss German', u'German', u'Danish', u'American English', u'British English', u'Dvorak', u'Estonian', u'Spanish', u'Latin American', u'Finnish', u'French', u'Belgian', u'Canadian French', u'Swiss French', u'Greek', u'Hebrew', u'Hungarian', u'Icelandic', u'Italian', u'Lithuanian', u'Latvian', u'Japanese', u'Macedonian', u'Norwegian', u'Dutch', u'Polish', u'Portuguese', u'Brazilian (ABNT2 layout)', u'Brazilian (EUA layout)', u'Romanian', u'Russian', u'Slovakian', u'Slovene', u'Serbian (Cyrillic)', u'Swedish', u'Turkish (F layout)', u'Turkish (Q layout)', u'Ukrainian']
ubiquity: console-keymaps-at/keymap db: us
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:44:13 INFO Step_before = stepKeyboardConf
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:44:13 INFO switched to page stepUserInfo
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:44:13 INFO Step_after = stepUserInfo
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/user-setup/user-setup-ask', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.usersetup.UserSetup
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^passwd/user-fullname$, ^passwd/username$, ^passwd/user-password$, ^passwd/user-password-again$, ERROR
ON STATE: 1
ON STATE: 2
ON STATE: 3
ON STATE: 4
ON STATE: 5
ON STATE: 6
ON STATE: 7
ON STATE: 8
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:44:27 INFO Step_before = stepUserInfo
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:44:27 INFO switched to page stepPartDisk
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:44:27 INFO Step_after = stepPartDisk
ubiquity: Starting up '/bin/partman' for ubiquity.components.partman.Partman
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^partman-auto/select_disk$, ^partman-auto/.*automatically_partition$, ^partman-partitioning/new_size$, ^partman/choose_partition$, ^partman/confirm.*, type:boolean, ERROR, PROGRESS
unsupported
kernelmodules_basicfilesystems
kernelmodules_ext3
kernelmodules_jfs
kernelmodules_reiserfs
kernelmodules_xfs
umount_target
parted
dump
update_partitions
filesystems_detected
auto_mountpoints
autouse_swap
backup
Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
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 97: unexpected code byte

/var/log/syslog:
Ubiquity 1.0.12
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:40:23 INFO switched to page stepLanguage
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/localechooser']' for ubiquity.components.language.Language
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^languagechooser/language-name
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:40:34 INFO Step_before = stepLanguage
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:40:39 INFO switched to page stepLocation
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:40:39 INFO Step_after = stepLocation
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$

(time-admin:6672): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:41:22 INFO Step_before = stepLocation
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:41:22 INFO switched to page stepKeyboardConf
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:41:22 INFO Step_after = stepKeyboardConf
ubiquity: kbd-chooser prepare
ubiquity: Starting up '['/bin/sh', '-c', '. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule; exec /usr/lib/ubiquity/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser']' for ubiquity.components.kbd_chooser.KbdChooser
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^kbd-chooser/method$, ^console-keymaps.*/keymap$, ERROR
ubiquity: apply_keyboard: us
ubiquity: apply_keyboard: layout us, model pc104
ubiquity: Display map: {u'Swedish': u'se-latin1', u'Icelandic': u'is-latin1', u'Estonian': u'et', u'Romanian': u'ro', u'Italian': u'it', u'Latin American': u'la-latin1', u'Dutch': u'nl', u'Brazilian (EUA layout)': u'br-latin1', u'Belgian': u'be2-latin1', u'Danish': u'dk-latin1', u'Bulgarian': u'bg', u'Turkish (F layout)': u'trfu', u'Hungarian': u'hu', u'Macedonian': u'mk', u'Lithuanian': u'lt', u'French': u'fr-latin9', u'Norwegian': u'no-latin1', u'Slovakian': u'sk-qwerty', u'Russian': u'ru', u'Dvorak': u'dvorak', u'Slovene': u'slovene', u'Finnish': u'fi-latin1', u'British English': u'uk', u'Spanish': u'es', u'Greek': u'gr', u'Canadian French': u'cf', u'Latvian': u'lv-latin4', u'American English': u'us', u'Croatian': u'croat', u'Portuguese': u'pt-latin1', u'Czech': u'cz-lat2', u'Ukrainian': u'ua', u'Japanese': u'jp106', u'Belarusian': u'by', u'Turkish (Q layout)': u'trqu', u'German': u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'Hebrew': u'hebrew', u'Polish': u'pl', u'Brazilian (ABNT2 layout)': u'br-abnt2', u'Swiss French': u'fr_CH-latin1', u'Swiss German': u'sg-latin1', u'Serbian (Cyrillic)': u'sr-cy'}
ubiquity: Untranslated choices: [u'by', u'bg', u'croat', u'cz-lat2', u'sg-latin1', u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'dk-latin1', u'us', u'uk', u'dvorak', u'et', u'es', u'la-latin1', u'fi-latin1', u'fr-latin9', u'be2-latin1', u'cf', u'fr_CH-latin1', u'gr', u'hebrew', u'hu', u'is-latin1', u'it', u'lt', u'lv-latin4', u'jp106', u'mk', u'no-latin1', u'nl', u'pl', u'pt-latin1', u'br-abnt2', u'br-latin1', u'ro', u'ru', u'sk-qwerty', u'slovene', u'sr-cy', u'se-latin1', u'trfu', u'trqu', u'ua']
ubiquity: Choices: [u'Belarusian', u'Bulgarian', u'Croatian', u'Czech', u'Swiss German', u'German', u'Danish', u'American English', u'British English', u'Dvorak', u'Estonian', u'Spanish', u'Latin American', u'Finnish', u'French', u'Belgian', u'Canadian French', u'Swiss French', u'Greek', u'Hebrew', u'Hungarian', u'Icelandic', u'Italian', u'Lithuanian', u'Latvian', u'Japanese', u'Macedonian', u'Norwegian', u'Dutch', u'Polish', u'Portuguese', u'Brazilian (ABNT2 layout)', u'Brazilian (EUA layout)', u'Romanian', u'Russian', u'Slovakian', u'Slovene', u'Serbian (Cyrillic)', u'Swedish', u'Turkish (F layout)', u'Turkish (Q layout)', u'Ukrainian']
ubiquity: console-keymaps-at/keymap db: us
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:41:37 INFO Step_before = stepKeyboardConf
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:41:37 INFO switched to page stepUserInfo
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:41:37 INFO Step_after = stepUserInfo
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/user-setup/user-setup-ask', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.usersetup.UserSetup
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^passwd/user-fullname$, ^passwd/username$, ^passwd/user-password$, ^passwd/user-password-again$, ERROR
ON STATE: 1
ON STATE: 2
ON STATE: 3
ON STATE: 4
ON STATE: 5
ON STATE: 6
ON STATE: 7
ON STATE: 8
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:41:56 INFO Step_before = stepUserInfo
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:41:56 INFO switched to page stepPartDisk
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:41:56 INFO Step_after = stepPartDisk
ubiquity: Starting up '/bin/partman' for ubiquity.components.partman.Partman
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^partman-auto/select_disk$, ^partman-auto/.*automatically_partition$, ^partman-partitioning/new_size$, ^partman/choose_partition$, ^partman/confirm.*, type:boolean, ERROR, PROGRESS
unsupported
kernelmodules_basicfilesystems
kernelmodules_ext3
kernelmodules_jfs
kernelmodules_reiserfs
kernelmodules_xfs
umount_target
parted
dump
update_partitions
filesystems_detected
auto_mountpoints
autouse_swap
backup
Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
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 97: unexpected code byte

Ubiquity 1.0.12
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:43:26 INFO switched to page stepLanguage
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/localechooser']' for ubiquity.components.language.Language
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^languagechooser/language-name
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:43:41 INFO Step_before = stepLanguage
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:43:47 INFO switched to page stepLocation
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:43:47 INFO Step_after = stepLocation
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:44:05 INFO Step_before = stepLocation
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:44:05 INFO switched to page stepKeyboardConf
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:44:05 INFO Step_after = stepKeyboardConf
ubiquity: kbd-chooser prepare
ubiquity: Starting up '['/bin/sh', '-c', '. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule; exec /usr/lib/ubiquity/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser']' for ubiquity.components.kbd_chooser.KbdChooser
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^kbd-chooser/method$, ^console-keymaps.*/keymap$, ERROR
ubiquity: apply_keyboard: us
ubiquity: apply_keyboard: layout us, model pc104
ubiquity: Display map: {u'Swedish': u'se-latin1', u'Icelandic': u'is-latin1', u'Estonian': u'et', u'Romanian': u'ro', u'Italian': u'it', u'Latin American': u'la-latin1', u'Dutch': u'nl', u'Brazilian (EUA layout)': u'br-latin1', u'Belgian': u'be2-latin1', u'Danish': u'dk-latin1', u'Bulgarian': u'bg', u'Turkish (F layout)': u'trfu', u'Hungarian': u'hu', u'Macedonian': u'mk', u'Lithuanian': u'lt', u'French': u'fr-latin9', u'Norwegian': u'no-latin1', u'Slovakian': u'sk-qwerty', u'Russian': u'ru', u'Dvorak': u'dvorak', u'Slovene': u'slovene', u'Finnish': u'fi-latin1', u'British English': u'uk', u'Spanish': u'es', u'Greek': u'gr', u'Canadian French': u'cf', u'Latvian': u'lv-latin4', u'American English': u'us', u'Croatian': u'croat', u'Portuguese': u'pt-latin1', u'Czech': u'cz-lat2', u'Ukrainian': u'ua', u'Japanese': u'jp106', u'Belarusian': u'by', u'Turkish (Q layout)': u'trqu', u'German': u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'Hebrew': u'hebrew', u'Polish': u'pl', u'Brazilian (ABNT2 layout)': u'br-abnt2', u'Swiss French': u'fr_CH-latin1', u'Swiss German': u'sg-latin1', u'Serbian (Cyrillic)': u'sr-cy'}
ubiquity: Untranslated choices: [u'by', u'bg', u'croat', u'cz-lat2', u'sg-latin1', u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'dk-latin1', u'us', u'uk', u'dvorak', u'et', u'es', u'la-latin1', u'fi-latin1', u'fr-latin9', u'be2-latin1', u'cf', u'fr_CH-latin1', u'gr', u'hebrew', u'hu', u'is-latin1', u'it', u'lt', u'lv-latin4', u'jp106', u'mk', u'no-latin1', u'nl', u'pl', u'pt-latin1', u'br-abnt2', u'br-latin1', u'ro', u'ru', u'sk-qwerty', u'slovene', u'sr-cy', u'se-latin1', u'trfu', u'trqu', u'ua']
ubiquity: Choices: [u'Belarusian', u'Bulgarian', u'Croatian', u'Czech', u'Swiss German', u'German', u'Danish', u'American English', u'British English', u'Dvorak', u'Estonian', u'Spanish', u'Latin American', u'Finnish', u'French', u'Belgian', u'Canadian French', u'Swiss French', u'Greek', u'Hebrew', u'Hungarian', u'Icelandic', u'Italian', u'Lithuanian', u'Latvian', u'Japanese', u'Macedonian', u'Norwegian', u'Dutch', u'Polish', u'Portuguese', u'Brazilian (ABNT2 layout)', u'Brazilian (EUA layout)', u'Romanian', u'Russian', u'Slovakian', u'Slovene', u'Serbian (Cyrillic)', u'Swedish', u'Turkish (F layout)', u'Turkish (Q layout)', u'Ukrainian']
ubiquity: console-keymaps-at/keymap db: us
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:44:13 INFO Step_before = stepKeyboardConf
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:44:13 INFO switched to page stepUserInfo
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:44:13 INFO Step_after = stepUserInfo
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/user-setup/user-setup-ask', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.usersetup.UserSetup
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^passwd/user-fullname$, ^passwd/username$, ^passwd/user-password$, ^passwd/user-password-again$, ERROR
ON STATE: 1
ON STATE: 2
ON STATE: 3
ON STATE: 4
ON STATE: 5
ON STATE: 6
ON STATE: 7
ON STATE: 8
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:44:27 INFO Step_before = stepUserInfo
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:44:27 INFO switched to page stepPartDisk
Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:44:27 INFO Step_after = stepPartDisk
ubiquity: Starting up '/bin/partman' for ubiquity.components.partman.Partman
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^partman-auto/select_disk$, ^partman-auto/.*automatically_partition$, ^partman-partitioning/new_size$, ^partman/choose_partition$, ^partman/confirm.*, type:boolean, ERROR, PROGRESS
unsupported
kernelmodules_basicfilesystems
kernelmodules_ext3
kernelmodules_jfs
kernelmodules_reiserfs
kernelmodules_xfs
umount_target
parted
dump
update_partitions
filesystems_detected
auto_mountpoints
autouse_swap
backup
Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
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 97: unexpected code byte

/var/log/partman:

/bin/partman: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/01unsupported: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: *******************************************************
parted_server: ======= Starting the server
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 1
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=hda /dev/hda
parted_server: Read command: OPEN
parted_server: command_open()
parted_server: Request to open =dev=hda
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Note =dev=hda as unchanged
parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 2
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=sda /dev/sda
parted_server: Read command: OPEN
parted_server: command_open()
parted_server: Request to open =dev=sda
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Note =dev=sda as unchanged
parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 3
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/35dump: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/35dump: IN: DUMP =dev=hda
parted_server: Read command: DUMP
parted_server: command_dump()
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 4
parted_server: Opening infifo
Device: yes
Model: Maxtor 4R120L0
Path: /dev/hda
Sector size: 512
Sectors: 240121728
Sectors/track: 63
Heads: 255
Cylinders: 14946
Partition table: yes
Type: msdos
Partitions: # id length type fs path name
(0,0,0) (0,0,62) -1 0-32255 32256 primary label /dev/hda-1
(0,1,0) (7472,254,62) 1 32256-61467517439 61467485184 primary ntfs /dev/hda1
(7473,0,0) (14767,254,62) 2 61467517440-121470935039 60003417600 primary ext3 /dev/hda2
(14768,0,0) (14945,254,62) 3 121470935040-122935034879 1464099840 primary linux-swap /dev/hda3
(14946,0,0) (14946,225,62) -1 122935034880-122942324735 7289856 primary label /dev/hda-1
Dump finished.
/lib/partman/init.d/35dump: IN: DUMP =dev=sda
parted_server: Read command: DUMP
parted_server: command_dump()
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 5
parted_server: Opening infifo
Device: yes
Model: €
Path: /dev/sda
Sector size: 512
Sectors: 31808
Sectors/track: 32
Heads: 4
Cylinders: 248
Partition table: yes
Type: msdos
Partitions: # id length type fs path name
(0,0,0) (0,0,31) -1 0-16383 16384 primary label /dev/sda-1
(0,1,0) (244,3,31) 1 16384-16056319 16039936 primary unknown /dev/sda1
(245,0,0) (247,3,31) -1 16056320-16252927 196608 pri/log free /dev/sda-1
(248,0,0) (248,1,31) -1 16252928-16285695 32768 primary label /dev/sda-1
Dump finished.
/lib/partman/init.d/70update_partitions: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/70update_partitions: IN: PARTITIONS =dev=hda
parted_server: Read command: PARTITIONS
parted_server: command_partitions()
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT: 1 32256-61467517439 61467485184 primary ntfs /dev/hda1

parted_server: OUT: 2 61467517440-121470935039 60003417600 primary ext3 /dev/hda2

parted_server: OUT: 3 121470935040-122935034879 1464099840 primary linux-swap /dev/hda3

parted_server: Partitions printed
parted_server: OUT:

parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 6
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/update.d/20bootable: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/update.d/20bootable: IN: GET_FLAGS =dev=hda 32256-61467517439
parted_server: Read command: GET_FLAGS
parted_server: command_get_flags()
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: partition_with_id(32256-61467517439)
parted_server: Partition found (32256-61467517439)
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT: boot

parted_server: OUT:

parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 7
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/update.d/20detected_filesystem: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/update.d/20detected_filesystem: IN: GET_FILE_SYSTEM =dev=hda 32256-61467517439
parted_server: Read command: GET_FILE_SYSTEM
parted_server: command_get_file_system()
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: command_get_file_system: File system for partition 32256-61467517439
parted_server: partition_with_id(32256-61467517439)
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: named_partition_is_virtual(=dev=hda,63,120053744)
parted_server: no
parted_server: OUT: ntfs

parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 8
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/update.d/50filesystems: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/update.d/60basicmethods: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/update.d/60swap: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/valid_visuals.d/10type: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/valid_visuals.d/10type: IN: USES_EXTENDED =dev=hda
parted_server: Read command: USES_EXTENDED
parted_server: command_uses_extended()
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT: yes

parted_server: Closing

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 48732, and occurs due to strange model names on certain disks. This is fixed in dapper-updates, so you can work around it by upgrading all packages with 'ubiquity' in their names on the running live CD before starting the installer.