Comment 6 for bug 99908

OK now things get strange. Following on from above I tested an install with Kubuntu daily build 20070402. Selecting guided - auto resize at the partitioning stage works fine and the install completes without errors. Following this I attempted to install by selecting 'guided - use entire disk' at the partitioning stage. This induced the same error as the original post. So I attempted the same fix suggested by Colin Watson above and repeated the install process. This time the installer crashed at Installing system - 5%

Here's the traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 210, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 207, in main
    install()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 58, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 353, in run
    self.process_step()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 871, in process_step
    self.progress_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 637, in progress_loop
    ret = dbfilter.run_command(auto_process=True)
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 159, in run_command
    self.start(auto_process=auto_process)
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 69, in start
    self.db = DebconfCommunicator(PACKAGE, cloexec=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/debconf.py", line 125, in __init__
    write=self.dccomm.tochild)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/debconf.py", line 48, in __init__
    self.setUp(title)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/debconf.py", line 51, in setUp
    self.version = self.version(2)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/debconf.py", line 60, in <lambda>
    lambda *args, **kw: self.command(command, *args, **kw))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/debconf.py", line 81, in command
    status = int(status)
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

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