Ubuntu
netbook-launcher package

an attempt to mount existing drives is made during install

Bug #403556 reported by Paul Larson
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Netbook Remix Launcher
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
netbook-launcher (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Loïc Minier

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

While installing Karmic UNR alpha3, I got a dialog that popped up wanting me to authenticate so that it could mount the existing drive on this system. This happened when I got to the "prepare disk space" step. This is confusing since iirc, the password is blank for the install cd's, but doubly confusing since we probably don't really want to mount it and pop up a nautilus window on top of ubiquity at this point.

clicking cancel seems to make it go away, but it tries again after the "who are you?" step in the install. It does it a third time after starting the install.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jul 23 14:41:49 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha i386 (20090723)
Package: ubiquity 1.99.2 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-3.19-generic
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-3-generic i686

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Paul Larson (pwlars) wrote :
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Paul Larson (pwlars) wrote :
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don hardaway (don-hardaway) wrote :

I had the same problem plus it did not install grub correctly on my macbook pro. I do not get a menu to boot into UNR.

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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote :

It's likely UNR specific; I see that netbook-launcher has some hooks to listen to volume added/changed signals and will try to mount anything.

Loïc Minier (lool)
affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) → netbook-launcher (Ubuntu)
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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote :

When it's built (just pushed it), could someone please try installing the netbook-launcher 1.6.21-0ubuntu3~unr1 package from the ~ubuntu-unr PPA before launching the install?

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-unr/+archive/ppa

Thanks,

Changed in netbook-launcher (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Loïc Minier (lool)
status: New → In Progress
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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote :

This blog post is also relevant for this discussion:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/ubuntu/2008-04-12-desktop-automount-pain.html

Loïc Minier (lool)
Changed in netbook-launcher (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package netbook-launcher - 1.6.21-0ubuntu3

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netbook-launcher (1.6.21-0ubuntu3) karmic; urgency=low

  * New patch, 61_honor-nautilus-no-automounting-pref, honor the
    /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_autorun_never GConf key to disable
    automounting; LP: #403556.

 -- Loic Minier <email address hidden> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:04:31 +0100

Changed in netbook-launcher (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
Changed in netbook-remix-launcher:
status: New → Fix Released
Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)
tags: added: iso-testing
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