Pysdm incorrectly shows sda1 as sdb2

[ankspo71]

Binary package hint: pysdm

pysdm incorrectly displays my root partition "/" sda1 as sdb2. It also claims that the mountpoint is sdb2. If I choose to configure that drive like it asks me to do, it could be disasterous for some users causing Ubuntu to not be able to boot. I am enclosing a screenshot of pysdm and a copy of my fstab. Despite having this problem with the root hdd partition, I can ignore it and use pysdm to sucessfully configure sdb2 to automount for any user on startup.

My current hard drive configuration is:
80gb hard drive (IDE), with Kubuntu on sda1 and Ubuntu on sda2, both ext4
120gb hard drive (IDE), with 4gb swap on sdb1, and remaining as storage on sdb2, both ext4

I suspect that pysdm has trouble reading UUIDs, as they are used in my fstab file.

Ubuntu (and Kubuntu) 10.04 beta2
Pysdm version 0.4.1-0ubuntu2
thanks,

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: pysdm 0.4.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic-pae 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 9 12:47:25 2010
InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/media-info'
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pysdm

[ankspo71 (jamesb-71)]

screenshot attached

[Jaime Soriano (kronoss)]

Yes, it's probably an UUID issue, try with pysdm 0.4.2, available in my PPA (https://launchpad.net/~kronoss/+archive/ppa).

[Simon Strandman (nejsimon)]

Hello

I have this problem too. My sda1 partition is given the name sdb6 which is my swap partition. It prevents me from having sda1 automounted since pysdm believes it's a swap partiton while it's actually NTFS.

@Jaime: I couldn't try your PPA since it's for i386 only. I use amd64.

[Simon Strandman (nejsimon)]

I managed to get pysdm 0.4.2 installed by downloading the deb and installing it manually, without using apt. Unfortunately it doesn't fix the problem, sda1 is still given the name sdb6.

[jon-paul clark (jon-paul-clark)]

just installed today from USC and i have exactly the same problem. I have sda1 reading as sdb2 (swap) this cannot be changed within pysdm

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

pydsm has been removed from Ubuntu as it's buggy and no longer maintained. See bug 1005279 for more details.