installer crashes at partition edit step

[jorwex]

after i select "manually edit the partition table," and click next, the next step in the wizard appears, but nothing's in the middle of the window--its just gray space. if i click next twice (not just once) it crashes and i get the error log below. i have 3 hard disks in the pc, and i want kubuntu on hda1. i have a few more partitions on the same drive tho and none of them are OSs. the others are all ntfs (the to-be kubuntu partition is ext3).

"Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 130, in ?
    install(sys.argv[1])
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 55, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 311, in run
    self.process_step()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 731, in process_step
    self.gparted_to_mountpoints()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 804, in gparted_to_mountpoints
    print >>self.qtparted_subp.stdin, "apply"
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'stdin'
"

any ideas? is there any difference in getting the installer to go successfuly and installing Ubuntu and running the kubuntu-install package?

[askrieger]

Re: installer crashes at partition edit step

If you can, in fact, install ubuntu successfully, do so. Then install the package "kubuntu-desktop" and there you are. I don't have a "kubuntu-install" package on my machine.

If you have the same difficulty installing Ubuntu that you had with Kubuntu, I suggest that you resize your windows partition(s) in windows. Just leave the space you need for Kubuntu as free space. Then format that space with the Kubuntu installer.