live CD automatically used Solaris partition as swap, corrupting it

[gps]

I had a partition with tag bf = solaris
It contained solaris 10 devel express, but maybe full of zeros might be a test case
i booted livecd ubuntu-8.04
It showed swapon -s sda3 and sda7 as active swap sections
There is no sda7! Maybe its from the livecd /etc/fstab ?
I ran swapoff sda3
*** TOO LATE *** although no pages swapped out, the signature was written
maybe the livecd had already ran mkswap

I ran ubuntu install,
in ALT-F1 I ran fdisk, it showed the partition tag bf
in the GUI, gparted started, I said 'do not touch partition'
it overwrote the part-tag with 82

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530657

I suspect that mkswap was run for me,
but I want told, wasnt asked, and am now unhappy
od -cx shows that the safety watermark is there
so other things can auto swapon,
and maybe next time pages will be swapped onto it.

[gps (lists-information-cascade)]

Looking at gparted screenshots, I was not running gparted.
It seems that its ubuntu installer and/or livecd that did this.

[Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure)]

This (unfortunately) hasn't been attended to for quite some time, and Ubiquity (the graphical installer) in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron (like most parts of that release) is no longer maintained (only the Server version of Hardy is still supported, and that uses debian-installer rather than Ubiquity). Furthermore, since will be no more point releases for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, even if this were to be fixed in ubiquity in Hardy, the improved Ubiquity would never get used. But while there is no sense in trying to fix this in Hardy, if it's in other releases with upcoming live CD's, then it is worth investigating it and trying to get it fixed in those releases.

Right now, there are two versions of Ubuntu that will have subsequently released desktop install CD's. One version is 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx, currently on point release 10.04.2, and the other is Ubuntu 10.10 Oneiric Ocelot (the upcoming non-LTS version, expected to be released this October). If the bug exists and is fixed in Oneiric, that would fix it for subsequent releases with higher version numbers, such as p-series, as well (though similar bugs could potentially be reintroduced later in development).

If you are able to reproduce this bug with the current point release desktop CD for Lucid (available at http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/) or with the Oneiric Alpha 2 desktop CD (available at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/oneiric/alpha-2/) or with an Oneiric daily-live dated later than the Alpha 2 CD (will be available at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/), then please open a Terminal window in the live CD system and run "apport-collect 224493" (without the quotes). Obviously, you should test this in such a way that, if the bug is reproduced, valuable data is not actually lost. After running apport-collect and posting here to provide details about what happened, this bug can be changed back from Incomplete to New, as at that point there will probably be enough information provided to enable a developer to begin work on the bug.

If you are no longer able to reproduce this bug on either 10.04.2 LTS or the Oneiric development branch, then this bug can be marked Invalid.

[Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure)]

Important correction to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/224493/comments/2:

I had said, "One version is 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx, currently on point release 10.04.2, and the other is Ubuntu 10.10 Oneiric Ocelot (the upcoming non-LTS version, expected to be released this October)."

I stated the version number for Oneiric Ocelot incorrectly. I should have said, "One version is 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx, currently on point release 10.04.2, and the other is Ubuntu **11.10** Oneiric Ocelot (the upcoming non-LTS version, expected to be released this October)."

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 224493

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

This issue has sat with a status of 'Incomplete' for more than four years now without any response so it is being closed as 'Invalid' and the previous comments are more than eleven years old.

The upstream bug was closed in 2008 as "RESOLVED NOTGNOME"

Please feel free to re-open this bug report if this is still an issue when using a currently supported release of Ubuntu and tell us in which release you still experience this issue.