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OK, I confirm Ahmed and Commander solutions: Installation Language in Wubi should not be changed to anything different from Windows language...
However, even with this prerequisite, the installation may fails with the "writelines() argument must be a sequence of strings" error :-( The log files show no differences with the one I attached.
In my case, I almost had the system installed with the default French language (it failed again during the disk image creation, but that time I understood why: trying to have a 20GB file image on a FAT32 drive is not a good idea...), but the subsequent installations were only a long list of "writelines()..." failures, even after I rebooted Windows and disabled the antivirus :-(
I finally get Ubuntu installed after I changed the Windows Language to English, reboot Windows and select an NTFS drive as the install destination.
Now I have to reboot to finish the installation process.
I think the current (full) workaround is:
- DO NOT choose a FAT32 drive as destination drive
- DO NOT change the Language in Wubi
- If you get the "writelines()..." error message, change the Windows Language to English (or another Wubi recognized language) then reboot before trying again