Comment 15 for bug 365642

What I've done, is reinstalling 8.10 via Wubi, then migrate to 9.04.
Long operation (it should be easier now that the rush has happened), but
good result in the end.

2009/5/4 Vargnatt <email address hidden>

> Same problem here. I've eagerly waited to get home, and install the new
> Kubuntu with Wubi, but the exact same problem occured. I use XP SP2 in
> Hungarian language, and I tried to set the language/location/time
> zone/keyboard/everything to English (I tried both American and British
> English), I tried with Wubi rev128 and rev129, I tried to mount an iso
> image with Daemon Tools (the image is in the same directory with Wubi
> 9.04 rev129), I cleared the Temp folder, restarted the system every
> time. After the localization settings I left the Wubi installation
> language on English. The target partition is formatted with NTFS. And I
> still get this really annoying error message. So none of the above
> solving suggestions worked for me.
>
> Please fix it soon, I'd really like to use the beautiful new Kubuntu,
> but I'm too afraid of loosing data because of my ignorance in
> partitioning.
>
> --
> wubi 9.04 rev129 fails on error "writelines() argument must be a sequence
> of strings"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365642
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