Ubuntu
ubiquity package

confusing dailog window after partitioning at install

Bug #105170 reported by Huub Schaeks
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Bug Description

When installing xubuntu feisty beta from the live cd I choose to manually partition my disk (step 4 of 7; option manual). Then
I select an existing partition an edit it to be mounted at / and use the xfs filesystem.
When I click 'Forward' to continue the installation I get a dialog saying 'The GRUB boot loader installation often fails or hangs when /boot is on a XFS file system. Using LILO in this situation is recommended.' The dialog has two buttons, one labelled 'Go Back' and one labelled 'Continue'. But clicking 'Continue' puts me back in the partitioner while clicking 'Go Back' continues the install.
Just switched the labels on the buttons?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 10 13:38:36 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Wed Mar 21 20:55:46 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Huub Schaeks (hschaeks) wrote :

This dialog show up again after step 7 of 7; again the buttons don't do what I expect them to.

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Huub Schaeks (hschaeks) wrote :

I've been asked to try again using a daily build. I've used the April 10 2007 build and if I'm correct (sorry I was concentrating on another installer bug I reported) the confusing dialog did not show up after step 7 of 7 this time. The dialog was still there when clicking 'Forward' on the partitioner page and again I had to click 'Go Back' to continue. The dialog also appeared right before the installer set up grub.

I've attached some log files generated by running 'ubiquity --debug' from the console (the file are /var/log/installer/debug and /var/log/syslog)

On an aside I would love to have an option not to install grub since I have grub installed already and just want to adapt my existing menu.lst file to the newly installed system.

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Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this issue and making (X)Ubuntu better.

Is this issue still in the current release (Gutsy)?

Changed in ubiquity:
status: New → Incomplete
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Iulian Udrea (iulian) wrote :

I'm marking this as Invalid. Don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

Cheers!

Changed in ubiquity:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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