Comment 10 for bug 365944

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: [Bug 365944] Re: Karmic Beta: disk partitions not shown in installer.

Searching for duplicates is great when you're reporting a bug that's
easily comprehensible, like "this icon is blue and should be grey" or
"Thunderbird doesn't have Mail-Followup-To support" or whatever. For
crashes, installation failures, and other such things where you simply
cannot tell without detailed reference to the code whether your bug is
the same as somebody else's, I strongly recommend against wasting your
time searching for duplicates, as it just does more harm than good.

For your case, I would ask that you please file a new bug so that we can
track and investigate it independently. It's much less important whether
other users can find it, since, as described above, they won't be able
to tell accurately whether they are suffering from the same problem
anyway. :-) The bug tracking system is meant for tracking changes that
need to be made to software by developers, not to act as a repository of
workarounds for users.