migration-assistant dies with separate home partition
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
My partition schema
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* sda1 - 2GB - SWAP
* sda2 - 10GB - root partition (with Ubuntu 8.04.1 installed)
* sda3 - all the remaining space - /home
Installation
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I start the Ubuntu installer, fill in all required data, tell the system that I want to format my sda2 partition and mount it as the root (”/”) and to mount my sda3 partition as /home (without formatting it). A few more clicks and the system was installing, time to take a coffee.
Here comes a problem, I’m back from my coffee and I see no installer on my screen, it’s crashed! So I’m launching it again, retype my info but I can’t see my partitions anymore…
Rebooting…
Relaunching the installer, filling data and start the installation process, it’s about to finish when it crashes again, I take a look here and there in the logs and see that’s something about the migration assistant (actually I have nothing to migrate, I’m using my old home directory…).
Rebooting again…
I remember that’s possible to launch the installer disabling the migration assistant thus I open a terminal and type:
sudo ubiquity --no-migration-
and do it all again, this time everything goes fine and I can boot my wonderful Intrepid from my disk.
Have same problem.
On HDD is sda5 - reiserfs, sda6 - swap, sda7 - reiserfs In installer format sda5.
Installer crushed in migration or grub instalation.
In the begining of instalation it /target is mounted sda5. After installer crashed - in /target mounted sda7.
Problem - SWAP is used in live-cd. If you stopswap before installation - all works fine.