ubiquity should give human-readable output if / is small

Bug #298974 reported by Shirish Agarwal
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

This is actually on Intrepid. I just did an installation of Ubuntu 8.10 using the desktop/Live CD on a friend's system.

I made 4 partitions :-

a. /boot :- 150 MB
b. / :- 1 GB
c. /home :- 40 GB
d. swap :- 1024 MB (Double of 512 MB physical RAM)

Now before installing it gave me an error message

"Some of the partitions you created were too small. Please make the following partitions at least this large / 2464153"

Now it took me quite some time to figure out ubiquity meant 2.35 GB atleast
(1024*1024 = 1048576)

Then do 2464153/1048576 = 2.349

Now for anybody who doesn't know it makes it harder.

It should have given 2.34 GB space is needed .

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: ubiquity None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/ubiquity.list]
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_IN
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug
description: updated
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Evan (ev) wrote :

I could have sworn this was already filed, but can only find bug 219568 which unfortunately contains multiple bug reports in it. Marking as confirmed.

Changed in ubiquity:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
Evan (ev)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.1.0

---------------
ubiquity (2.1.0) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Run X with -nolisten tcp (LP: #462394).
  * Make sure we never try to install onto the live filesystem.
  * Only print the filenames being blacklisted if in debug mode.
  * Provide human readable sizes in the partitions-too-small warning
    (LP: #298974).
  * Mark the "Installation Complete" window as always on top
    (LP: #462178).
  * Fixes from Pychecker for the KDE frontend (kde_ui):
    - Don't import datetime or math. The timezone code is in a separate
      module now.
    - Remove some unused variables.
    - Don't assign to a variable that's going to be immediately discarded.
  * Signal to GTK+ when using a right-to-left language, so that it
    composes the interface from right to left (LP: #222845).
  * Signal to the slideshow when the installer is using a right-to-left
    language (LP: #446989).
  * Set SUDO_UID and SUDO_GID in ubiquity-dm so ubiquity knows what user
    to drop privileges to (LP: #422254).
  * Do not try to configure networking in oem-config (LP: #471498).
  * Make migration-assistant import failures non-fatal to the overall
    install.
  * pkgsel now provides a debconf question to avoid warning the end user
    when the language packs could not be installed (LP: #471553).
  * Make sure a device exists as part of the grub target device
    validation.
  * Allow the user to retry grub installation with a different device on
    failure.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: apt-setup
    1:0.42ubuntu1, choose-mirror 2.29ubuntu2, clock-setup 0.100ubuntu1,
    debian-installer-utils 1.71ubuntu1, grub-installer 1.47ubuntu1, hw-
    detect 1.73ubuntu1, netcfg 1.51ubuntu1, partman-base 135ubuntu1,
    tzsetup 1:0.26ubuntu1, user-setup 1.28ubuntu1.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Add a debian/rules target to run pychecker. I've fixed several warnings,
    but there are still several left so this is not yet enabled by default.
  * Fix debconf frontend:
    - Start oem-config on stopping rc, as well as when starting display
      managers.
    - Add some missing imports (ubiquity.frontend.base.Controller,
      ubiquity.plugin.Plugin, ubiquity.i18n, signal,
      ubiquity.components.install).
    - If there's a containing debconf frontend, talk to it rather than using
      debconf-communicator.
    - Set a controller in the language plugin.
    - Use spaces rather than ${!TAB} in localechooser when using the debconf
      frontend, since debconf doesn't support the latter yet.
    - Don't handle user-setup preseeding for the debconf frontend.
    - Remove unused progress_position handling.
    - Fix exception names in ubi-network and ubi-tasks.
  * Require Python 2.5, so we can now use hashlib rather than md5 and avoid
    a slew of warnings.
  * Add an intro message noting that we're alpha again.
 -- Evan Dandrea <email address hidden> Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:41:42 +0000

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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