Comment 16 for bug 43012

OK, this bug is really freaking me out; I've studied all the code paths leading up to it about half a dozen times and can't figure out how it could be happening.

Could somebody who can reproduce this exact problem (crash dump ending with "RuntimeError: first member of each text/response id pair must be a string") please:

  * Open /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py in a text editor (you'll need to start the text editor as root);
  * Search for "gtk.Dialog" until you find the line reading "dialog = gtk.Dialog(title, transient, gtk.DIALOG_MODAL, tuple(buttons))" (should be the first match, I think);
  * Insert a line *above* that line as follows:
        print >>sys.stderr, title, msg, option_templates, self.locale, buttons
    Make sure you enter this exactly as above on a single line (no word-wrapping), and that the line begins with eight (8) spaces;
  * Run the installer again and reproduce the problem;
  * Attach the resulting /var/log/installer/syslog file to this bug report.

With any luck that should provide me with enough information to track this down. Thanks in advance!