system-partitions-formatted validation missing from new partitioner
Bug #89461 reported by
Kristian Klette
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Colin Watson |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
ubiquity crashes if you try to install on an allready installed system. ubiquity-installer gives OSError: File exists on line 428 (ish, around there somewhere)
Should be an easy fix, just wrap a try tag around it and maybe give the user some options, overwrite the file, skip the file or reformat the partition.
Shouldn't die hard at least ;)
This is from the herd5 i386 desktop cd btw :)
Related branches
description: | updated |
Changed in ubiquity: | |
assignee: | nobody → kamion |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
Changed in ubiquity: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
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With Feisty Herd-5 i386 I too get this:
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists.
From syslog: ubiquity/ install. py", line 1468, in <module> ubiquity/ install. py", line 307, in run copy_all( ) ubiquity/ install. py", line 481, in copy_all mknod(targetpat h, stat.S_IFCHR | mode, st.st_rdev)
File "/usr/share/
install.run()
File "/usr/share/
self.
File "/usr/share/
os.
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists
It occurs when I set as the root mount point (/) an existing ext3 partition that already has an Ubuntu Feisty Herd installation.
For me, there is no indication that the installer crashed, and instead had to determine problem from the syslog. On the desktop is a /target mount:
$ cat /etc/mtab |grep -i target
/dev/hda7 /target ext3 rw 0 0