Ubuntu
ubiquity package

crash on manual partition when USB disk connected

Bug #41680 reported by Luka Renko
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ubiquity (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Kubuntu Daily Live CD 20060426.1

I have 300 GB external USB2 drive (/dev/sda) connected to the system. When I get to Ubiquity disk partitioning, it first display strange dialog with two options to select between internal/external disk (see attachment).
I am not sure what would happen if specific disk would be selected, but I suspect this would mean that whole disk is used for Kubuntu. Since I would likt to control how disk /dev/hda is partitioned, I have selected option "Manually edit partition table" but click on Next resulted with the following crash:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 536, in on_next_clicked
    self.dbfilter.ok_handler()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/components/partman.py", line 211, in ok_handler
    disk_choice = self.frontend.get_disk_choice()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 754, in get_disk_choice
    return self.autopartition_buttongroup_texts[id]
KeyError: 4

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Luka Renko (lure) wrote : SelectDisk.png

Strange select disk dialog with one "ghost" entry without text...

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Luka Renko (lure) wrote :

I have disconnected my USB drive and now I do not get Select Disk screen anymore, but I go directly to Prepare disk space dialog.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Hmm, OK; the traceback should be enough to nail this down, thanks. I suspect that the disk selector in the KDE frontend is just broken.

Changed in ubiquity:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Luka Renko (lure) wrote :

With today's Kubuntu Live CD, the problem is still the same (same screenshot, still crashes if manul partitioning is selected), but now I get this trace-back (I have used English yesterday and Slovenscina today):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 536, in on_next_clicked
    self.dbfilter.ok_handler()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/components/partman.py", line 211, in ok_handler
    disk_choice = self.frontend.get_disk_choice()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 752, in get_disk_choice
    print " get_disk_choice (self): " + str(self.part_disk_buttongroup.selected().text())
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u010d' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)

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Luka Renko (lure) wrote :

With English, I get the same traceback as yesterday.

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Luka Renko (lure) wrote :

Note:
- initial traceback (when using English) is the same as in bug 41865
- second traceback (when using non-English) is the same ad in bug 41893

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

As Luka observes, there are two distinct bugs here. I'll mark this as a duplicate of the less well-understood one (bug 41865), as bug 41893 should be trivial to fix as soon as Jonathan or I have time to test said fix.

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