Ubuntu 'Encrypt disk' prevents opening drive allocation screen

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Quantal Desktop 20120904.1

On a system with 2 disk drives, if the user selects to 'Erase existing OS' and 'Encrypt Disk', he's prompted for a password then installation continue on first drive without asking which target drive he wanted to install the system to.

Multi disk configuration are common and this represents a high risk of data loss.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.14-generic 3.5.3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 5 15:29:17 2012
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha i386 (20120904.1)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

The automatic partitioning is not very multi-disk aware.
See:
http://goo.gl/6lSBE

You did choose "Erase existing OS", which does have a warning
Instead you should have selected "Use biggest free".

Please take screenshots, compare with the tables linked above. If you believe something is wrong, especially in the multi-disk/multi-os setups, please re-confirm this bug.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

First scenario 2 disk with existing Ubuntu systems on them and installation of Quantal Desktop 20120904.1

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Second scenario: Windows on drive 1, fresh disk on drive 2

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Yes, I did not understand what you mean the first time. This is a real bug & screenshots help a lot.

Also it's interesting that you can see ubuntu logo on the drive allocation page, because that logo is missing / not visible during side-by-side installs.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Also, note that there is no "install alongside" option.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

'Also, note that there is no "install alongside" option.'

Can you open a separate bug about this? Cause it ideally should offer to resize either of the installations, since it should be able to. (The disks need to be large enough though, e.g. 16GB+ which I think they were in your case)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.11.31

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ubiquity (2.11.31) quantal; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Buffer reads from debconf-copydb. Python 3 defaults to unbuffered reads
    from byte streams, which is much slower.
  * Port oem-config-remove-gtk to Python 3, now that
    python3-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets exists; the final piece!
  * Remove Python 2 support. We aren't going back now.
  * Remove the rest of the long-dead PS3 port.

  [ Dmitrijs Ledkovs ]
  * Allow going from the encryption key setup page, to the disk space
    allocation page. (LP: #1046323)
  * Correctly apply styles to the title & progress sections and not the
    centre piece. This means themes are no longer required to provide non
    standard @dark_[fb]g_color colors, instead 'menubar' Gtk CSS style is
    used. This also fixes long standing a11y issues in HighContrast themes
    & requirements for non-standard color definitions. (LP: #744283)
  * Make lables in the segmented bar use the same colours as normal labels.
  * Changing the "Add/Remove/Change Partiontion" buttons to mixed
    symbolic/text buttons should make the screen comply with Ubiquity
    Design spec ( http://goo.gl/Kokw5 ) and address confusion about the
    updated screen. (LP: #1045799)
  * Fix the disappearance of crypto password field (LP: #1045716)
  * Fix misallignment of crypto password fields (LP: #1045712)
  * Make setup security key page go back to ask page (LP: #1045698)
  * Remove powerpc/ps3 low-memory profile, as it doesn't do anything any
    more. gnome-session-remove command is no longer present, and the init
    processes it tried to stop no longer exist under those names. We do
    want a low memory profile, which ubiquity-only mode now.
  * ubiquity-wrapper: Add support for udisks2 inhibit, drop devkit-disks
    inhibit. (LP: #719338)
  * Prevent progress label to expand & shrink the window (LP: #1046241)
  * Automatic update of included source packages: base-installer
    1.122ubuntu9.

  [ Dylan McCall ]
  * Fixed slideshow_get_available_locale missing new locales in
    extra_slides_dir. (LP: #1046511)
 -- Dmitrijs Ledkovs <email address hidden> Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:47:54 +0100