Ubiquity crash just before partitioning.

[joaomanojr]

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 0xa4 in position 164: unexpected code byte

[joaomanojr (joaomanojr)]

This is /var/log/syslog:

Sep 21 23:29:55 ubuntu syslogd 1.4.1#17ubuntu7: restart.
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.15-23-386
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: Loaded 23018 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.15-23-386.
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.15.
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled.
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [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
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fe40000 (usable)
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000003fe40000 - 000000003fe50000 (ACPI data)
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000003fe50000 - 000000003ff00000 (ACPI NVS)
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] 126MB HIGHMEM available.
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] 896MB LOWMEM available.
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] On node 0 totalpages: 261696
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] HighMem zone: 32320 pages, LIFO batch:7
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] DMI 2.3 present.
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM ) @ 0x000f71b0
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 INTEL D845GRG2 0x11000215 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3fe40000
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: FADT (v002 INTEL D845GRG2 0x11000215 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3fe40200
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: MADT (v001 INTEL D845GRG2 0x11000215 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3fe40300
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: ASF! (v016 AMIASF I845GASF 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x3fe442f0
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 INTEL D845GRG2 0x0000010a MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20
Sep 21 23:29:56 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Sep 21 23:29:56 ub...

[joaomanojr (joaomanojr)]

This is partman, as annex.

I have run the installation on a system that have dual boot WindowsXP + CentOS3, intending to replace CentOS3 installation.

Tried to remove partitions, doesn't work.

Thanks in advance,
   Joao.

[joaomanojr (joaomanojr)]

   I think I have solved the problem: looks like the partitioning tool was confused about my pen drive attached to USB port during installation process.
   I simply removed it and the installation progress has advanced sucessfully.

Thanks, rgds,
   Joao.

[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 6.06.1, so you can work around it by upgrading all packages with 'ubiquity' in their names on the running live CD before starting the installer.