Thanks Michael. I have marked bug #933105 and bug #950952 as duplicates of this bug. Apologies for making the title of this bug report so much geared towards the developers who could fix the bug that regular users experiencing it would not recognize that they were affected by it. I hope the new title fixes this.
I would like to highlight Michaels's workaround (from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/933105/comments/15) here as well: Before starting the installer, run the following command in a terminal: sudo rm /usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-webcam.py In my opinion (and other's as well: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/869239/comments/5), while the webcam/set login image feature is cool, it should be considered for removal if it causes problems. It also adds another step to the installation process which is hardly necessary and adds workload during the installation process. ** Description changed: During installation, after entering the user information, the installer slows down to a crawl and the status bar (which says "Copying files") stops. Upon switching VT to 2 and back to 7, the window contents is not updated. Checking with top, the ubiquity process first uses 100 % CPU and eats memory, and after a while it uses e 750 M (of 1 G) of real memory and 3.5 G (of 4.0 G) of virtual memory causing massive swapping. - - The information uploaded with apport-collect is from the same LiveUSB - session after I killed the ubiquity process an hour or two after it - first hung. Apport wanted to submit a bug report automatically when the - unity session started, but that bug report was wrongly judged to be a - duplicate of bug 652916. The hang occurs when loading the page titled ubiquity/text/webcam_heading_label after the comment '# This page is just a UI page' in gtk_ui.py. This invokes plugin_get_current_page() in ubi-webcam.py, where the call self.faceselector.webcam_play() never returns. In UbiquityDebug.txt, the following error message occurs twice: Error opening file for reading: Permission denied - I have traced the origin to ubi-webcam.py as well, in __init__(): They come from the calls - Gst.init(sys.argv) + I have traced the origin to ubi-webcam.py as well, in __init__(): They come from the calls + Gst.init(sys.argv) (sys.argv here resolves to ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity']) and self.faceselector = gtkwidgets.FaceSelector() + + Workaround: + + Before starting the installer, run the following command in a terminal: + sudo rm /usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-webcam.py ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CasperVersion: 1.296DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111227) Package: ubiquity 2.9.10 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-7.13-generic 3.2.0-rc7 Tags: precise running-unity ubiquity-2.9.10 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-7-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/909179 Title: [Precise] Installation freezes after "Who are you?" (Ubiquity hangs in ubi-webcam.py) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/909179/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
