Installer Crashed kubuntu daily-live 20070111 i386

[Tom Shaw]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Step 6 crashed, sda is a 160G SATA connected drive, sdb is an 80G IDE connected drive, . AHCI is enabled in the bios. sda is a default partitioned ubuntu edgy server install that is updated and dist upgraded to kubuntu feisty. sdb has a 30G partition for backup and the rest is unpartitioned.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 185, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 180, in main
    install(args[0])
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 56, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 328, in run
    self.process_step()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 804, in process_step
    self.process_autopartitioning()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 858, in process_autopartitioning
    choice = self.get_autopartition_choice()[0]
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 1573, in get_autopartition_choice
    choice = unicode(self.autopartition_buttongroup_texts[id])
KeyError: -1

[Tom Shaw (firephoto)]

Some more info from .xsession-errors

Jan 11 20:59:40 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/localechooser']' for ubiquity.components.language.Language
Jan 11 20:59:40 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^languagechooser/language-name, ^countrychooser/shortlist$
QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 14 and type 'Read', disabling...
QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 14 and type 'Exception', disabling...
Jan 11 20:59:42 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone

Jan 11 20:59:42 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$

QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 14 and type 'Write', disabling...
QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 14 and type 'Write', disabling...
Jan 11 20:59:48 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/lib/ubiquity/console-setup/console-setup.postinst', 'configure']' for ubiquity.components.console_setup.ConsoleSetup

Jan 11 20:59:48 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^console-setup/layout, ^console-setup/variant

Jan 11 20:59:48 ubiquity: Setting keyboard layout: pc105 us []

QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 14 and type 'Read', disabling...
QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 14 and type 'Read', disabling...
QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 14 and type 'Exception', disabling...
Jan 11 20:59:51 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/lib/ubiquity/user-setup/user-setup-ask', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.usersetup.UserSetup
Jan 11 20:59:51 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^passwd/user-fullname$, ^passwd/username$, ^passwd/user-password$, ^passwd/user-password-again$, ERROR
QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 14 and type 'Exception', disabling...
QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 14 and type 'Read', disabling...
QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 14 and type 'Exception', disabling...
Jan 11 21:00:08 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/bin/partman']' for ubiquity.components.partman_auto.PartmanAuto
Jan 11 21:00:08 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^partman-auto/.*automatically_partition$, ^partman-auto/select_disk$, ^partman-partitioning/new_size$, ^partman/choose_partition$, ^partman/confirm.*, type:boolean, ERROR, PROGRESS
QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 14 and type 'Write', disabling...
QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 14 and type 'Read', disabling...
QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 14 and type 'Exception', disabling...
Exception in KDE frontend (invoking crash handler):

[Tom Shaw (firephoto)]

I updated ubiquity and the error was the same. I installed the ubiquity-frontend-gtk and tried that and it failed in a similar way but took longer after step 5. This never gets to step 6 it just fails with that page blank after it scans the disks and the Crashed window.

Jan 11 21:27:13 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/localechooser']' for ubiquity.components.language.Language
Jan 11 21:27:13 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^languagechooser/language-name, ^countrychooser/shortlist$
Jan 11 21:27:21 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone
Jan 11 21:27:21 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$
Jan 11 21:27:40 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/lib/ubiquity/console-setup/console-setup.postinst', 'configure']' for ubiquity.components.console_setup.ConsoleSetup
Jan 11 21:27:40 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^console-setup/layout, ^console-setup/variant
Jan 11 21:27:40 ubiquity: Setting keyboard layout: pc105 us []
Jan 11 21:27:45 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/lib/ubiquity/user-setup/user-setup-ask', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.usersetup.UserSetup
Jan 11 21:27:45 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^passwd/user-fullname$, ^passwd/username$, ^passwd/user-password$, ^passwd/user-password-again$, ERROR
Jan 11 21:28:03 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/bin/partman']' for ubiquity.components.partman_auto.PartmanAuto
Jan 11 21:28:03 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^partman-auto/.*automatically_partition$, ^partman-auto/select_disk$, ^partman-partitioning/new_size$, ^partman/choose_partition$, ^partman/confirm.*, type:boolean, ERROR, PROGRESS
Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 185, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 182, in main
    install()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 56, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 310, in run
    self.process_step()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 867, in process_step
    self.process_autopartitioning()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 922, in process_autopartitioning
    choice = self.get_autopartition_choice()[0]
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 1620, in get_autopartition_choice
    raise AssertionError, "no active autopartitioning choice"
AssertionError: no active autopartitioning choice

[Tom Shaw (firephoto)]

I tried the amd64 cd but it had the same crash and then I disabled AHCI in the bios but the crash was still the same. Finally I disconnected the IDE hard disk leaving just the IDE CDROM and the SATA hard disk connected and there was no crash and the installation is complete.

So it seems related to the IDE hard disk somehow. I checked from the livecd when it was connected and qtparted showed the drive normally and looked correct. Also it worked fine on the feisty install that I was replacing.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. Despite the slightly different-looking traceback (the GTK and the KDE frontends differ slightly in their handling of this), this is also bug 76976.