installer crashes step 6 partitioner

[mhbell]

Feisty Fawn herd 2 amd 64
when I try to do a hard drive install from the live CD I get the following (see below)

This happens on 3 different computers with the i386 version as well as the amd 64 version of feisty fawn herd 2 I did not have this problem with herd 1 alpha. when I get to the partitioner I get a blank screen on step 6 and the following error.

We're sorry; the installer crashed. Please file a new bug report at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+filebug (do not attach your details to any existing bug) 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/syslog and /var/log/partman:

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/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

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 76976, and has since been fixed; run 'sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install ubiquity' from a terminal window before starting the installer to pick up the fix.

[mhbell (mel-pctech-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 76976, and has since been fixed; run 'sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install ubiquity' from a terminal window before starting the installer to pick up the fix.

I did that and it created another problem. The hard drive install on the desktop does not work now and the install won't start.
I don't know what if any files you need. Can I just install herd 1 and do updates to herd 2? herd 1 installed without any problems for me.
Mel

[Peter Whittaker (pwwnow)]

Mel, you may be able to install Herd1 and run updates (though this stopped working for me at one point), but it may be better to install from the 20070118 daily live CD as it contains a great many bug fixes and seems to work better (Herd2 didn't install for me at all).

If you do have problems, please open a new bug report: One problem per bug report, and this one's done!

Given that this a dupe and that the master bug is fixed, we should probably stop updating this report! (I'm not taking my own advice so that folks know that your comment was addressed - but we should now stop). Please don't respond to this, but open new reports if you run into new bugs.

Thanks!