Useless low disk space warning on unused drives just before install step

[Scott Ritchie]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I was installing using the "Install Ubuntu" option on boot (not the live CD). I have two hard disks with two partitions each:

sda1 as /, which was being formatted,
sda5 as /home, which was using an old home partition.
sdb1 and sdb5 contain my jaunty install, and were "unused"

sda5 was about half full, as was sda1 (which shouldn't have mattered).
sdb5, my jaunty home directory, was about 98% full.

Some of the files in sda5 are symlinks to sdb5 (eg my ~/.tomboy folder), however I don't think that matters.

Ubiquity popped up the Gnome "this disk is 98% full" warning just before the install step, presumably referring to sdb5. This was both unhelpful and confusing -- nothing was being written to that disk, and I couldn't delete files on it here anyway.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jul 27 03:31:15 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-4.22-generic
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-4-generic x86_64

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

Here's the syslog as well

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Can you post a screenshot of the warning? This is likely the gnome-settings-daemon low disk space warning. The new version of gnome-settings-daemon (2.27.4-0ubuntu1) contains a rewritten warning, which should ignore anything which isn't statically mounted via /etc/fstab. If you're seeing the warning from the installer, then it's likely using an older version of gnome-settings-daemon

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Since you reported this against a development version of Xubuntu Karmic, we are closing this report. If this can be reproduced using the final version of Xubuntu 9.10, please comment and change the status to 'new' in the yellow line.