Ubiquity installer says "Step 5 of 8" on "Step 6"

[Stephen Gornick]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

The status label in the bottom left corner of the window says "Step 5 of 8" for the "Prepare partitions" step. However the previous step was "Prepare disk space", which also said "Step 5 of 8".

Steps to reproduce:
Run Ubiquity installer.
In Step 5, "Prepare disk space", select the "Manual" option.
Click the "Forward" button.
The install window now shows "Prepare partitions", and the bottom left will read "Step 5 of 8"

Expected results:
Step 6 of 8.
(FYI, clicking the "Forward" button then shows the next step correctly as "Step 7 of 8".)

Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Herd-4 i386

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

No, that's intentional - partitioning is multiple pages but one logical step (otherwise we wouldn't be able to predict in advance how many steps would be involved, since the number of pages varies depending on whether you select guided or manual partitioning).

However, migration-assistant doesn't correctly fix up the page numbers if it's disabled, which is why it jumps to 7.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

ubiquity (1.3.22) feisty; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * New partitioner:
    - Fix edit dialog not to try to resize partitions even if the resize
      spinbutton was left untouched (LP: #85227).
    - Add contextual buttons to GTK frontend (part of LP: #83166).
    - Add an undo facility.
    - partman-* updates add validation support (LP: #82768); also add
      XFS-on-/boot validation.
    - Break out of setting the mountpoint if it's invalid (LP: #84543).
  * Fix crash if multiple newworld boot partitions are present (LP: #84429).
  * GTK frontend:
    - Fix backup from user information page if migration-assistant is not
      active (LP: #85642).
    - Fix up step numbers if migration-assistant is disabled (LP: #85711).
    - Disable smooth zooming, as some video drivers are very slow at drawing
      this and it's hard to handle this dynamically (LP: #67572).
  * Fill in a default username based on the user's full name (LP: #84550).
  * Retranslate Forward button when going back from summary page
    (LP: #86047).
  * configure.ac: Bump required GTK version to 2.10.0 (for GtkLinkButton).
  * Automatic update of included source packages: apt-setup 1:0.16ubuntu4,
    base-installer 1.70ubuntu4, choose-mirror 2.10ubuntu2, clock-setup
    0.12ubuntu2, debian-installer-utils 1.42ubuntu2, migration-assistant
    0.4, partman-auto 62ubuntu5, partman-base 100ubuntu4,
    partman-basicfilesystems 51ubuntu2, partman-basicmethods 33ubuntu2,
    partman-efi 11ubuntu2, partman-ext3 45ubuntu2, partman-jfs 20ubuntu2,
    partman-newworld 16ubuntu1, partman-reiserfs 34ubuntu1, partman-target
    46ubuntu2, partman-xfs 32ubuntu1.

  [ Jonathan Riddell ]
  * Add new partitioner for KDE frontend

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:59:44 +0000

[Stephen Gornick (sgornick)]

> partitioning is multiple pages but one logical step

That is not obvious at all to those who aren't familiar with the ubiquity installer.

One possibility is to change the message on the the "Prepare partitions" page to read:
  Step 5 of 8, Page 2