workaround for now: in your preseed file: d-i preseed/early_command string chmod -x /root/usr/sbin/dmidecode
it's not the best solution, but we are getting a lot of new notebooks with the new smbios, which causes the problem. When the end user does his first boot, the computername error is still present, but can be changed to shorter name. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1374193 Title: ubiquity crashed with TypeError in make_error_string(): sequence item 0: expected str instance, NoneType found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1374193/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs