[Bug 1042005] [NEW] Error aborted installation of Quantal alpha

[John S. Gruber]

Public bug reported:

Happened pretty far into installation

kvm installation to qcow2 format disk.

/, swap, and bios-loader (grub) partition

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: ubiquity 2.11.23 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-11.11-generic 3.5.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-11-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.321
Date: Sun Aug 26 21:37:00 2012
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha i386 (20120825)
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)

Aug 27 01:33:42 ubuntu ubiquity: Processing triggers for update-notifier-common ...
Aug 27 01:33:43 ubuntu ubiquity: Traceback (most recent call last):
Aug 27 01:33:43 ubuntu ubiquity:   File "/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader", line 296, in <module>
Aug 27 01:33:43 ubuntu ubiquity:     process_download_requests()
Aug 27 01:33:43 ubuntu ubiquity:   File "/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader", line 212, in process_download_requests
Aug 27 01:33:43 ubuntu ubiquity:     if para.has_key('script'):
Aug 27 01:33:43 ubuntu ubiquity: AttributeError: 'Deb822' object has no attribute 'has_key'
Aug 27 01:33:43 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: error processing update-notifier-common (--unpack):
Aug 27 01:33:43 ubuntu ubiquity:  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Aug 27 01:33:43 ubuntu ubiquity: No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already

** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 quantal ubiquity-2.11.23

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Title:
  Error aborted installation of Quantal alpha

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Happened pretty far into installation

  kvm installation to qcow2 format disk.

  /, swap, and bios-loader (grub) partition

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.11.23 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-11.11-generic 3.5.2
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-11-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.321
  Date: Sun Aug 26 21:37:00 2012
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha i386 (20120825)
  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)

  Aug 27 01:33:42 ubuntu ubiquity: Processing triggers for update-notifier-common ...
  Aug 27 01:33:43 ubuntu ubiquity: Traceback (most recent call last):
  Aug 27 01:33:43 ubuntu ubiquity:   File "/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader", line 296, in <module>
  Aug 27 01:33:43 ubuntu ubiquity:     process_download_requests()
  Aug 27 01:33:43 ubuntu ubiquity:   File "/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader", line 212, in process_download_requests
  Aug 27 01:33:43 ubuntu ubiquity:     if para.has_key('script'):
  Aug 27 01:33:43 ubuntu ubiquity: AttributeError: 'Deb822' object has no attribute 'has_key'
  Aug 27 01:33:43 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: error processing update-notifier-common (--unpack):
  Aug 27 01:33:43 ubuntu ubiquity:  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Aug 27 01:33:43 ubuntu ubiquity: No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already

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