Upgrade menu option should not appear for old releases
Bug #898278 reported by
Brian Murray
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Stéphane Graber | ||
| Precise |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Stéphane Graber | ||
Bug Description
As documented in bug 891711 if you insert a bootable disk with a previous release of Ubuntu, say 11.10, into a system running a later release of Ubuntu (12.04) you are presented with an option to "Upgrade" from the new release to the old one. This reinstalls Ubuntu while preserving your home and installed applications. However, this was not an envisioned use case (and subsequently is not tested) and is problematic as the kernel from the new release is not removed.
The option to upgrade from a new release to an old release should not appear in Ubiquity.
Related branches
| Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Precise): | |
| milestone: | none → ubuntu-12.04-beta-1 |
| assignee: | nobody → Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) |
| Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Precise): | |
| assignee: | Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) → Stéphane Graber (stgraber) |
| tags: | added: rls-mgr-p-tracking |
| Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Precise): | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Precise): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.9.22
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ubiquity (2.9.22) precise; urgency=low
* ubi-partman:
- Avoid crash when calling contextual menu on a partition list item.
(LP: #936115)
- Add logic to parse the current and new version number and only
allow reusing an existing install if the target is older than the
media. (LP: #898278)
* ubi-console-setup:
- To avoid issues when quickly changing the selection (easily done by
using the keyboard), add a 600ms delay to any user action, reset with
any further action.
The UI is also now set_sensitive(
refresh.
This should be enough to limit or get rid of (LP: #645449)
* Automatic update of included source packages: netcfg 1.68ubuntu12.
-- Stephane Graber <email address hidden> Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:21:30 -0500