During upgrade, user is able to quit without warning
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I wanted to upgrade a laptop from 12.04.5 to 14.04.1 using the USB installer. Ubiquity correctly detected my existing installation and I selected to upgrade that. Due to Bug #763075 I was then prompted to choose a username and password for my "new" installation. Thinking I'd chosen the wrong option (because an upgrade wouldn't need me to create a new user, right?) I wanted to go back to the partman screen.
The details here are a little hazy, but I think the back button and quit button were both greyed out. However, I was able to right-click the Ubiquity icon in the launcher and select Quit from the quick menu. I may have seen a dialogue box asking if I was sure, with Cancel and Quit buttons, but I don't recall exactly (I've been through the installer several times since, trying to recover things, so I may be remembering that dialogue from one of those attempts). I definitely did not see a prominent warning to the effect of "We've already started deleting your old installation, if you quit now, you'll hose your system."
Anyway, I was able to quit Ubiquity, and I then rebooted, thinking maybe I could insert the USB stick in the running 12.04 session and upgrade from there (is that still possible?). But the system failed to boot, and upon further inspection after booting from the USB again, I see a lot of the old system has been deleted, including /etc - so now Ubiquity doesn't even detect that it was a previous Ubuntu installation (because there's no /etc/lsb-release - though even restoring that file hasn't enabled the upgrade option again, I can only install alongside, or wipe the disk and install from scratch).
| Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → Expired |
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