Ubtuntu 6.06 flight 7 livecd Installer crashed (using existing partitions)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The error report is given below. I tried the Ubuntu
6.06 flight 7 livecd installer using the following
partitions:
hda1: FAT16
hda2: FAT32
hda3: FAT32
hda4: Extended
hda5: ext3 (knoppix)
hda6: swap (knoppix)
hda7: ext3 (intended for Ubuntu)
hda8: swap (for Ubuntu)
hda9: ext3 (data)
hda10: FAT32
hda11: FAT32
I have a AMD Athlon64 3500+ with 1GB RAM,
nForce 4mummyboard, 6600GT graphics and
using the 32bit Ubuntu livecd
I choose the custom install as I want to keep
my existing partition (hda7, hda8) are my testing
partition while hda5,hda6 are for stable Linux.
Anyway, I choose keep partition in the custom
option. The I choose hda7 for "/" and hda8
for "swap". Please forward and forward again
for the summary page.
***BANG*** the installer crashed with error message
below. I abandon install and tried to reboot. The
Ubuntu installer has already screwed up my MBR
even before it tried to copy stuff to hda7. This
is not very nice.
I repaired the MBR using knoopix livecd from a
backup:
dd if=virgin.mbr count=63 of=/dev/hda
Then in Knoppix I got errrors with hda9. I checked
usign Partition Manger 2.40 (FREE Dos opartitoner).
I found out that Ubuntu has deleted all partitions
from hda7 to hda11.
This is just not acceptable!!! If I want to keep
existing partitions the Ubuntu installer should not
touch my partition at all. The MBR should be
update after copying all the stuff from CDROM to
hda8 with a message that this is happening.
Sorry about my problems. I like to be hopefully.
In fact I am almost ready to switch to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 5.04 and 5.10 were very buggy. I am
hoping that Ubutnu 6.06 will be better based
on Ubuntu promise to support this release for
five years on servers and a nice delay to stabilize
the code.
This bug is a secuirity problem bnecasue it screws
up the partition table.
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/
return callback(source, debconf_condition)
File "/usr/lib/
if not self.process_
File "/usr/lib/
return self.dbfilter.
File "/usr/lib/
if not input_widgets[
File "/usr/lib/
('ubiquity/
File "/usr/lib/
dialog = gtk.Dialog(title, transient, gtk.DIALOG_MODAL, tuple(buttons))
RuntimeError: first member of each text/response id pair must be a string
Oh, I did recover my partitions as I use Partition
Manager 2.40 to dump the sector addresses and
printed it out. I just needed to re-enter the
sector addresses to recover all my deleted partitions