ubiquity installation failures
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
migration-assistant (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Evan | ||
ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Colin Watson |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
EDIT: I have isolated an error in Ubiquity. Partitioning will fail if drives are mounted. Please insert a warning or automatically unmount drives. The migration manager will fail as well if Windows partitions are mounted.
I had multiple failures during installation. If I was not determined to get Ubuntu running, I would have thrown the CD away.
I am on my 12th install.
1st install- General lockup and installer crashed
2nd install- Tried to import my AIM and Firefox configurations in the migration manager. After 20 minutes of stalling, I aborted installation.
3rd install- After skipping migration, the partitioner failed and automatically aborted.
4th install- Same error as above
5th install- I am very disappointed with the partitioner. It doesn't announce errors until it is too late and it is difficult to create logical partitions.
12th install- Finally, I have figured out what is wrong. I had some of my other drives mounted while installing. As soon as I unmounted and tried again, the installation worked. You may want to include a warning.
Often, the installer stalls, particularly during partitioning. The status bar will freeze at a certain percentage for several minutes before continuing. Most people would be tempted to quit.
ProblemType: Bug
Date: Sat Mar 3 23:21:22 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
Related branches
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in ubiquity: | |
assignee: | nobody → kamion |
status: | Unconfirmed → Fix Committed |
I've made ubiquity itself automatically unmount partitions and warn if it can't. Evan, could you check out the comment about migration-assistant having a similar problem?