Ulteo installer crashed

Ulteo appears to be using a derivative of a version of Ubiquity that was present in an early part of the Ubuntu 6.10 development cycle; furthermore, judging from the version number, they have modified it quite extensively. In future, please don't report problems with it to us, as I don't think we can reasonably be expected to support it.

That said, I've committed a guard against this problem for Ubuntu 8.04. We have no control over what goes into Ulteo, so you'll need to report this separately to them. The change I committed is visible here:

  http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-installer/ubiquity/trunk/revision/2615

Actually, this is only a fix for the root cause of the problem, which I noticed in your syslog. The exact error you reported (a bug in crash handling itself) doesn't seem to correspond to the code in the base version of ubiquity they're using, version 1.1.1; I conclude that this must have been introduced by Ulteo.

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 1.8.3

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ubiquity (1.8.3) hardy; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Make all text in the partitioner translatable (LP: #144741).
    Unfortunately we don't have time to get translations in place for 8.04,
    but there ought to be time to do this for 8.04.1. This also involved
    moving the "Undo changes to partitions" button to a second line in order
    to avoid excessive horizontal growth.
  * Adjust po-debconf flags in ubiquity/install/copying_error/md5, so that
    ${FILE} doesn't get translated.
  * Offer a list of mount points when creating a partition (LP: #85713).
    Adjust this list (and also that offered when editing a partition) if the
    file system is changed to FAT or NTFS.
  * Guard against division by zero while copying files (LP: #211503).
  * Ensure that "Location for the new partition" always defaults to
    "Beginning" (LP: #207810).
  * Stop X forwarding code from breaking if we aren't running within X
    (LP: #214211).

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Update the translations from Rosetta.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: debian-installer-utils
    1.50ubuntu3, localechooser 1.42ubuntu5, partman-basicfilesystems
    56ubuntu4.

  [ Jonathan Riddell ]
  * Fix exception in edit partitions dialogue use in kde_ui
  * Add minimum size to partition_edit_dialog.ui, closes LP: #203626
  * Fix buttons on question dialogue to use supplied text, closes LP: #203660

 -- Evan Dandrea <email address hidden> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:22:15 -0400