Ubuntu installer fails to launch. Ubi-language crashes with exit code 1

[Calum Heath]

When launching the ubuntu installer from the livecd or when Ubuntu initially starts up, a message is recieved stating

"Ubi-language failed with exit code 1. Further information may be found in /var/log/syslog. Do you want to try running this step again before continuing? If you do not, your installation may fail entirely or be broken.

Happens more than once when started from livecd or normally. The installer freezes when I click continue.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.9.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-5.11-generic-pae 3.2.0-rc5
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-5-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.296
Date: Sun Dec 18 18:36:00 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20111218)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.9.9

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ubiquity (2.9.9) precise; urgency=low

  * Cope with pygobject returning unicode objects rather than UTF-8-encoded
    str objects (LP: #905916, #906015).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:25:13 +0000