What is happening here is that the part of the installer that handles
removing system files from a partition that was not marked to be
formatted told the part of the installer that adds a user to the new
system to create said user with uid 0, the uid of root, which wont ever
work.
We've worked around this for the next release of the installer (ubiquity
1.99.29) by not trying to preserve the uid of the default user that was
in place on the operating system that you're installing over top of.
However, I'm curious to know what's causing this to happen in the first
place, so we can better understand the scope of the problem. So would
you be so kind as to explain the exact steps you took when partitioning,
and to confirm that the home directory of user you inputted while
installing Ubuntu was owned by root before you attempted to install?
Any additional information about how you installed the Linux operating
system you had before installing Ubuntu would be equally appreciated.
Thanks!
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_user()
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445138
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