Ubuntu
ubiquity package

feisty installation does not umount mounted partitions before their creation

Bug #81687 reported by Vincenzo Ciancia
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #89605: ubiquity installation failures. Edit Remove
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ubiquity (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

If I mount a partition before install, to check it before wiping, and after that i choose to format it, the installer will exit (and I will have to start it again) telling that it can't create the partition, without telling me why. It should just umount the partition before creation.

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Matt Thompson (mattthompson) wrote :

Did you get any error messages at all?

If you did it would really help if you could attach them, there's some help here if you need it: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUbiquity/AttachingLogs

Cheers,

Matt

Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in ubiquity:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml) wrote :

I would have to risk to format my partition again now :) I don't have a free partition now. If needed (you can tell me privately) I will try an installation under virtualbox and provide additional information.

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jamesfoster (jamesfoster) wrote :

The error window has the title "Failed to create a file system" and the text is "The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of IDE1 master (hda) failed." (or something similar depending on partition and drive, obviously)

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Stephen Gornick (sgornick) wrote :

Because this will stop the installation, and subsequent attempts will result with the same error, shouldn't the importance/urgency of this bug be increased?

As was commented on in the duplicate ( Bug #83766 ) -- this will confuse lots of users because it is so easy to mount a partition without realizing it.

FYI, problem persists in Fiesty Herd-5.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I fixed this following bug 89605; at the time I had forgotten that this bug also existed.

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