Ubiquity offers to erase existing OS rather than use entire disc even when more than one disc exists

Bug #1361914 reported by Erick Brunzell
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Bug Description

In comparison to bug #1265192 this is a minor issue but I felt I should report it anyway. I'm testing Ubuntu GNOME Utopic Beta 1 candidates and noticed with a simple two disc setup where Trusty resides on one disc and the other disc is bare I get no entire disc option but rather just erase Trusty. But the button said Continue rather than Install now so I took the bait and the next screen does offer the choice of selecting either the 160GB drive where Trusty resides or the blank 80GB drive. I'll attach a screenshot of the options offered. I did abort the operation because I'm too busy to restore my backup if things should go awry.

Here's the output of parted -l:

ubuntu-gnome@ubuntu-gnome:~$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA WDC WD800BB-63JK (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags

Model: ATA WDC WD1600AABB-5 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 160GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
 1 1049kB 158GB 158GB primary ext4 boot
 2 158GB 160GB 2136MB extended
 5 158GB 160GB 2136MB logical linux-swap(v1)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: ubiquity 2.19.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-10.15-generic 3.16.1
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-10-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.6-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.343
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Aug 27 00:00:26 2014
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-gnome.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha i386 (20140826)
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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Erick Brunzell (lbsolost) wrote :
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Erick Brunzell (lbsolost) wrote :

And here's a picture showing that it did provide the option of selecting which disc to use after clicking on Continue.

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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1361914

tags: added: iso-testing
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Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. If you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect https://api.launchpad.net/1.0/bugs/1361914

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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