Ubiquity installer in Hardy can loop at partition editing step
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Evan | ||
| Hardy |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
The installer fails to reset the variable that causes it to stay on a page when an error is triggered when returning to a previous page, causing it to stay on the previous page that it just returned to despite any attempts to proceed.
This will occur if a user enters an invalid password, then presses back to change their partition layout. If they try to proceed forward to the user setup page again, they will remain on the partitioning page.
This is a one line change that should have no regressions.
A diff of the proposed change as included in the ubiquity 1.8.9 upload can be found here:
TEST CASE:
1) Run the installer, click "Forward" until you get to Step 5, Who are you?
2) Enter all data correctly except for the "What is the name of this computer?" field - enter a name with an underscore (or presumably any other non-valid character) and press "Forward"
3) The installer will complain that the computer name is invalid.
4) Click "Back" to go back to Step 4, the partition editor
5) Press "Forward" - partition editor rescans the disk and step 4 starts again (this will happen every time you press "Forward", and happens regardless of what settings you choose for the partitions.)
Original report:
There is a sequence of events that can cause the Ubiquity installer in Hardy Herron (8.04) to loop at step 4, the partitioning step.
| Changed in ubiquity: | |
| assignee: | nobody → evand |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in ubiquity: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in ubiquity: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in ubiquity: | |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| Steve Beattie (sbeattie) wrote | #4 |
| Steve Beattie (sbeattie) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in ubiquity: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 1.9.0
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ubiquity (1.9.0) intrepid; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
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partman-
widget.
[ Evan Dandrea ]
* Usability fixes for the timezone widget:
- Make the hover-to-zoom areas relative to the widget size.
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* Make capitalization of migration-assistant consistent (LP: #225555).
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[ Mario Limonciello ]
* Enable --automatic and preseeding support on the Mythbuntu frontend.
-- Evan Dandrea <email address hidden> Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:26:30 -0400