Warning dialog and shown partition conflict

Bug #1218676 reported by Len Ovens
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

I have three disks (the USBstick shows up as another) when I select installation type "Something else", I choose to install on sdd1. So I select it and click on "change" which allows me to select size, FS type and mount point. I select no size change, ext4 and /. A dialog comes up warning me I will not be able to undo a resize (say what, I didn't ask for a resize). The dialog does not confirm which partition it is talking about, but the partition list behind the dialog redraws showing sda1 as selected. Yikes! I don't want to touch sda at all, bail out and very carefully select the right partition all over... same thing. In the end the right partition is selected for install.

This is misleading.

The dialog should remind the user which partition they are destroying and the selection box should not redraw but remain with the user's selected partition, the one with the work being preformed on it, showing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: ubiquity 2.15.15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-2.1-lowlatency 3.11.0-rc5
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-2-lowlatency i686
ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.336
Date: Thu Aug 29 16:53:27 2013
InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntustudio.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-Studio 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha i386 (20130829)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Len Ovens (len-ovenwerks) wrote :
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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1218676

tags: added: iso-testing
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
importance: Medium → High
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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