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partman-base package

ubiquity does not allow to install to pre-partitioned, pre-formatted device if the device contains the live filesystem

Bug #349581 reported by Oliver Grawert on 2009-03-27

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	partman-base (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

trying to install to the free space of an SD card that also carries the livefs seems to be impossible.
the card is pre-formatted like:

/dev/mmcblk0p1 -> livefs mounted as /cdrom while installation runs
/dev/mmcblk0p2 -> swap
/dev/mmcblk0p3 -> formatted empty ext4 partition (supposed to be used as /)

during partitioning ubiquity warns that contents of mmcblk0p3 will be deleted, then moves on, later it tells that /cdrom cannot be unmounted which would be necessary since changes to the partition table would have to be written ... given that the device is partitioned and formatted this is not true, the install should just move on.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: armel
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: ubiquity 1.11.20 [modified: usr/share/ubiquity/install.py]
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-imx51 armv7l

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Oliver Grawert (ogra) wrote on 2009-03-27:

#1

Casper.gz Edit (1.7 KiB, application/x-gzip)
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityDebug.gz Edit (961 bytes, application/x-gzip)
UbiquityPartman.gz Edit (10.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)
UbiquitySyslog.gz Edit (4.7 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2009-03-27:

#2

This happens because Oliver is changing /dev/mmcblk0p3 from ext4 to ext3. However, this ought not to require changing the partition table.

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Oliver Grawert (ogra) wrote on 2009-03-29:

#3

i re-ran the install and made sure to only select ext4 this time. i did get a proper message saying that because i didnt pick to format the partition, files and directories would be deleted prior installing. after the interactive part of ubiquity the complaint about /cdrom being unmountable showed up again and i was kicked back to manual partitioning.

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Oliver Grawert (ogra) wrote on 2009-03-29:

#4

syslog.gz Edit (4.2 KiB, application/octet-stream)

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Oliver Grawert (ogra) wrote on 2009-03-29:

#5

partman.gz Edit (7.1 KiB, application/octet-stream)

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Oliver Grawert (ogra) wrote on 2009-03-29:

#6

debug.gz Edit (899 bytes, application/octet-stream)

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Paul Larson (pwlars) wrote on 2009-06-26:

#7

It appears that this bug is not specific to Ubuntu on armel, so the armel tag has been removed. If something changes, and you later believe that this bug only happens on armel, please add the armel tag again.

tags:

removed: armel

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