ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_ma()

Binary package hint: ubiquity

This has been going on here for some time. Ubuntu 8.o4 ran fine. 8.10 ran fine. When I did update to 9.04 it borked. I was still able to boot to Vista 64 bit. I had been installing Ubuntu 32 bit. After 9.04 borked I reinstalled 8.10, and it worked for a while, then crashed. Vista still booted ok, but only with it's own loader. Grub was gone. Attempt to reinstall 8.10 failed with this dang ubiquity error. I tried uninstalling Grub. re-installing grub. Always the ubiquity error. Then I tried re-installing Windows (thinking that would overwrite the boot sector) and Yes Vista booted fine. Then I tried 8.10 then 9.04 64 bit. The dang grub problem was still there. I had the partition program re-format the partition I used for "/". nope. I do not want to re-format the "/home" partition. I'll lose all my data.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
MediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" - Release amd64 (20090420.1)
Package: ubiquity 1.12.12
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity gtk_ui
ProcEnviron: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/proc/6924/environ'
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', 'gtk_ui']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_ma()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
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