ubiquity crashes trying to fetch info from inconsistent NTFS drive

[Bart de Koning]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Ubiquity - Karmic Koala

If you use ubiquity to install Ubuntu to your drive, but there is a NTFS disk present that contains some minor inconsistencies (like some clusters that are linked multiple times) ubiquity crashes. It crashes at the point when it is trying to import data from the Windows XP system on this drive (another point it does do this without asking, or giving an opportunity to skip it!!!). Because of the inconsistencies this drive could not be mounted in linux, probably that caused the crash.

Unfortunately, after fixing the problem, I am unable to reproduce the bug, so I cannot deliver any log files. But before I understood the reason of the crash, it was very reproducable, took me 6 times of reinstalling...

The only fix I had, was to plug out the whole harddisk by the way, as it is impossible to skip the import of old Windows files (and there was not anything interesting on there...), I could not figure out howto fix my NTFS partition from within linux besides ntfsfix (but that only flags the partition so Windows will fix it at the next boot), and because I managed to damage my old grub before my fresh install, I could not boot into Windows either...

Would be good if ubiquity just continues when it encounters an error when importing files instead of crashing
(And secondly would be nice if you could skip the import procedure, as an advanced option or something)

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

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