ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_ma()

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Installing on custom partition table.
Last I checked, it was scanning repos.
Suspect that CDRW used for installation may have a scratch - got a couple of sector/block errors on bootup.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 26 20:58:26 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha i386 (20090812.3)
Package: ubiquity 1.99.6
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity gtk_ui
ProcEnviron: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/proc/4321/environ'
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', 'gtk_ui']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_ma()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic i686
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