[Bug 961735] Re: 12.04 liveCD installer (ubiquity) crashed while "Checking for packages to install..."

[miegiel]

I narrowed the cause down to one of the things I did or didn't do listed
below:

1) I made the bootable USB liveCD using unetbootin. Unetbootin doesn't
clean the USB disk (as ubuntu usb-creator does) and I had not removed
the files on the USB disk. Unetbootin does ask if I want to overwrite
existing files, but some old files might remain.

2) I had not cleaned (formatted) the root partition I installed to in
advance of the installation, but formatted the root partition during the
installation.

3) I use a separate /home partition (which I left intact) and the home
directory of the user I made during the installation already existed
with some files in it.

If I clean the USB disk, root partition and user directory in advance of
installing I can complete the installation without problems (after
working around bug #966294).

While 1) is obviously my own stupidity, 2) and 3) might be reported as
bugs here already. I'll trawl launchpad to see what I can find. If I
don't report back, consider this report a fluke.

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  12.04 liveCD installer (ubiquity) crashed while "Checking for packages
  to install..."

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  That is the step after the detecting hardware / installing hardware

  NOTE : I removed /usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-webcam.py to avoid bug
  #909179

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.9.31
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-19.30-generic-pae 3.2.11
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-19-generic-pae i686
  ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.312
  Date: Wed Mar 21 23:35:07 2012
  InstallCmdLine: initrd=/casper/initrd.lz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper  quiet splash -- persistent BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120321)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=unknown
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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