Comment 18 for bug 652916

somewhat agree with colin's opinion..though it's still to be verified.

With Warm Regards
Akshit Dhawan

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 16:18, Colin Watson <email address hidden> wrote:

> I don't agree with Jean-Baptiste's diagnosis of this as an X crash.
> What happened was that usermod segfaulted:
>
> Oct 1 11:18:54 ubuntu kernel: [ 1201.341294] usermod[7311]: segfault at
> 10 ip 0804ae0e sp bfa0ed68 error 6 in usermod[8048000+11000]
>
> ... and then a chain of stuff fell over. I would tend to pin this on
> hardware problems
>
> Most of the bugs duplicated against this probably shouldn't be.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug (732376).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/652916
>
> Title:
> ubiquity-dm crashed with ValueError in command(): invalid literal for
> int() with base 10: ''
>
> Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: ubiquity
>
> happened on maverick beta from 30th of september when trying to
> install in VirtualBox under 10.04.
>
> From bug 706395:
> This crash happened while installing natty (daily build from 1/21/2011).
>
> 1. Booted from CD burned with natty-desktop-amd64.iso
> 2. Selected "install"
> 3. Selected manual partitioning and specified the following:
> Existing /dev/sda10 used for root (/), formatted with ext4.
> Existing /dev/sda7 used for /home (not reformatted)
> 4. Clicked the button to install
>
> The installer dialog said "copying files..."
>
> Then the purple ubuntu desktop appeared, the new one.
> Seemingly nothing else happened.
>
> After a while several crash dialogs appeared offering to "Report
> Problem...". One of them led to this crash report.
>
> The install was apparently part-way through: The new root fs was
> mounted at /target and contained lots of stuff.
>
>
> ===
> Same on liveCD without installing:
> - Boot from USB
> - Select Try Ubuntu
> - Ubiquity crash when the session starts.
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> Package: ubiquity 2.4.4
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Oct 1 13:20:47 2010
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ubiquity-dm
> InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
> LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate i386
> (20100928)
> ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/ubiquity-dm vt7 :0 hostname
> /usr/bin/ubiquity --greeter --only
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/ubiquity-dm', 'vt7', ':0', 'hostname',
> '/usr/bin/ubiquity', '--greeter', '--only']
> SourcePackage: ubiquity
> Title: ubiquity-dm crashed with ValueError in command()
> UserGroups:
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/652916/+subscribe
>