Ubuntu
ubiquity package

can not install

Bug #63193 reported by Ben Lun on 2006-09-30

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #48732: Install crash at the time of partitioning. Edit Remove

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

Bug Description

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 1177, in watch_debconf_fd_helper_read
    self.debconf_callbacks[source](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 92: unexpected code byte

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Mateusz Drożdżyński (matid) wrote on 2006-09-30:

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.