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ubiquity package

  1. Bug #1374193
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1374193

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Jason Gerard DeRose (jderose) wrote :

Okay, figured this out, more or less.

I was mocking DMI information in qemu using:

-smbios file=smbios_type_1.bin

The dump was from actual hardware, but under the seemingly more strict parsing done either by the newer kernel and/or dmidecode, the "system-product-name" ends up with a hugely long warning (and some junk characters as well, I believe).

I can likewise reproduce this bug on the actual hardware I got the dmidecode dump from, so it has nothing to do with running under qemu, as far as I can tell.

Something different in the code paths used for a normal install vs OEM install means Ubiquity crashes only when doing an OEM install.

I worked around the problem by switching to a dmidecode dump from newer hardware.

This is probably a very low priority bug as it doesn't effect normal end user installs.