/var/lib/os-prober/mount briefly appears on desktop

[Ian Jackson]

Binary package hint: migration-assistant

Using the i386 livecd 20070411, I select "Install". After I have selected my partitioning arrangement ("use whole disk") I get the "Migrate Documents and Settings" page. While this is looking for things to migrate, I see an icon labelled /var/lib/os-prober/mount briefly flash on my desktop (about twice).

[Ian Jackson (ijackson)]

Ian Jackson writes ("[Bug 105531] /var/lib/os-prober/mount briefly appears on desktop"):
> Using the i386 livecd 20070411, I select "Install". After I have
> selected my partitioning arrangement ("use whole disk") I get the
> "Migrate Documents and Settings" page. While this is looking for things
> to migrate, I see an icon labelled /var/lib/os-prober/mount briefly
> flash on my desktop (about twice).

Oddly on a different machine but with the same CD, doing another test
install, I saw this apparently come up as `/mnt/migration-assistant'
or something similar.

Ian.

[Evan (ev)]

If migration-assistant runs it will mount each partition that it can look for things to import from on /mnt/migrationassistant, assuming you're not formatting the entire drive in which case it shouldn't mount anything. This will happen in addition to os-prober mounting partitions under /var/lib/os-prober/mount as migration-assistant calls os-prober.

I've committed a change to my local branch of Ubiquity to fix this, but it looks like it will have to wait until Feisty+1 to make it into trunk.

[Evan (ev)]

This has been fixed since early in the Gutsy cycle.