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ubiquity package

ubiquity does not work with kernels that have swapping disabled

Bug #651886 reported by Oliver Grawert on 2010-09-30

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Kees Cook

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py looks for /proc/swap and fails if a user uses a custom kernel that has no swapping enabled (i.e. on some custom arm bioards people use such a setup, which is admittedly a corner case but can happen)

the function should properly return None if /proc/swap does not exist.

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Related branches

lp:ubuntu/natty/ubiquity

lp:~kees/ubiquity/ver-2.5.25 (Merged)

Oliver Grawert (ogra) on 2010-09-30

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low

Revision history for this message

Gilles Grandou (gilles-grandou) wrote on 2010-09-30:

ubiquity_fix_noswap.patch Edit (490 bytes, text/plain)

Here is a patch I've made to ubiquity to fix this bug

Gary M (garym) on 2010-09-30

tags:

added: patch

Kees Cook (kees) on 2011-03-10

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Kees Cook (kees)
status:	New → Fix Committed

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-03-10:

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.5.25

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ubiquity (2.5.25) natty; urgency=low

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Install oem-config-debconf properly. (LP: #732576)
  * Don't trigger oem-config-debconf on dbus.

  [ Kees Cook ]
  * scripts/plugininstall.py: do not explode if /proc/swaps is missing,
    thanks to Gilles Grandou (LP: #651886).
-- Kees Cook <email address hidden> Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:37:48 -0800