Installer crash - Non UTF characters in SSD Name

[rattyp]

Hi Jerry
Thanks for responding.  Sadly have already been down this route and got the same result as described in the 2nd link of my original post. https://github.com/dcantrell/pyparted/issues/76

Notwitstanding, I tried this fix again with LL6.4 live usb, and as expected, the installer crashes a bit further on (after wifi prompt) with:-

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py", line 897, in
<lambda>: self.dbfilter.start(auto_process=True))
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 101, in start
prep = self.prepare()
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-prepare.py", line 520, in prepare
self.setup_sufficient_space()
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-prepare.py", line 545, in setup_sufficient_space
free = self.free_space()
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-prepare.py", line 559, in free_space
devices = proc.communicate()[0].rstrip('\n').split('\n')
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 1039, in communicate
stdout = self.stdout.read()
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/codecs.py", line 322, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x92 in position 72: invalid start byte

In previous attempts, i followed the further workarounds in https://github.com/dcantrell/pyparted/issues/76 but get to a stage where I don't know how to workaround the subsequent partman errors that arise.

Hence my original question as to whether you might be considering use of the new Ubuntu 23.04 subiquity/flutter installer for future releases of LL which I know works witout any problems.