Ubuntu
ubiquity package

Unable to install two raring desktops side-by-side

Bug #1085961 reported by Para Siva
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Colin Watson

Bug Description

Attempting to carry out 'Install Ubuntu13.04 alongside Ubuntu Raring Ringtail' fails and goes in a loop. Pressing 'Continue' on 'Write previous changes to disk and continue' window leads us back to the previous screen of 'Installation Type' and the process is going in a loop.
Hence could not proceed wth the second installation.

1. Install Raring desktop 20121203 (Select entire disk and no encryptiion and no lvm)
2. Once the first installation is complete, attempt to carry out another installation
 2.1 Select 'Install Ubuntu13.04 alongside Ubuntu Raring Ringtail' and click continue
 2.1 Click 'Install now' on the disk resizing window
 2.3 Click 'Continue' on 'Write previous changes to disk and continue' window
 2.4 Now it could be seen that the initial 'Installation Type' window comes back

Occurred when used raring-desktop-amd64.iso as well on the same hardware - mac mini 5.2, which has a disk size of 500 GB in total

Affects:
ubuntu-amd64 psivaa
ubuntu-amd64+mac psivaa
ubuntu-i386 psivaa

Doesn't affect:

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: ubiquity 2.13.6 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-4.12-generic 3.7.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.7.0-4-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.3-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.329
Date: Mon Dec 3 13:11:03 2012
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64+mac (20121203)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Para Siva (psivaa) wrote :
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Para Siva (psivaa) wrote :

The screen shot shows two buttons of 'Back' and 'Continue' each

Para Siva (psivaa)
tags: added: rls-r-incoming
description: updated
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Para Siva (psivaa) wrote :

Can confirm that the same behaviour is seen when trying i386 on a VM as well

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Jackson Doak (noskcaj) wrote :

try and fill out the affects/doesn't affect list. if the two in there aren't confirmed please remove them. add the names of people who confirmed as well

description: updated
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Para Siva (psivaa)
description: updated
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Greg Faith (gregfaith) wrote :

Could not re-size partitions for the along side install.
1) Clean full drive install
2) Attempting along side install
     a) not able to re-size partitions (which I could see)
    b) could not cleanly cancel the install or move back

Attempting to install 20121204 Lubuntu raring amd64.

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Greg Faith (gregfaith) wrote :

Same results, as expected, on Lubuntu i386 raring dated 20121204

Gema Gomez (gema)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.13.7

---------------
ubiquity (2.13.7) raring; urgency=low

  * Use dh-autoreconf to avoid huge diffs when the autotools are updated.
  * Optimise all PNGs and tell pkgbinarymangler not to do so again, to save
    build time.
  * GTK frontend:
    - Fix regression causing incorrect response IDs to be returned from
      question dialogs (LP: #1085961).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:56:33 +0000

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Greg Faith (gregfaith) wrote :

Installing Lubuntu powerpc.iso 20121206 and the along side seems to be going well. By the way I did re-size the first partition just to make sure that part was working too.

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Greg Faith (gregfaith) wrote :

Opps it appears this bug is not fixed in Lubuntu raring desktop amd64 in current 20121207.

1) clean entire drive install
2) Attempted along side install failed
3) installed manual install successful
4) attempted another along side install failed

Partitions did not show sizes and I was not able to re-size the partitions.
Verified Ubiquity version 2.13.7

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Greg Faith (gregfaith) wrote :

Additional information did a side-by-side of Ubuntu raring desktop amd64 20121207 and it completed just fine looks like it is Lubuntu specific now.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: [Bug 1085961] Re: Unable to install two raring desktops side-by-side

@Greg Faith: This could well be a different underlying cause. Please
file a new bug with fresh logs.

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