Ubiquity installer crashes when there is a non-accessible folder in a partition
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Every time I tried to install Ubuntu 7.04 or 7.10 in my system it failed with a Crash message (in the upper bar). After trying a lot of things, I found that the bug was because there was a non-accesible folder in the partition I wanted to use as /home.
I was reinstalling my system due to some problems, and I wanted to maintain all my /home data, and some configuration files (my firewall and some other ones), so I copied (as root) the /etc folder to /home before starting the installation. The folder had "root" as owner and group.
Then I tried to install Ubuntu 7.04, but it crashed after choosing the partitions. With Ubuntu 7.10 it was similar, but it crashed at 92% of the installation. I tried to mount the partitions in another order, and even to not mount /dev/sda6, but the installer always mounted it. After a lot of tests, I found that it was the "Migration assistant" (I'm not sure if this is the right name, since I use the spanish version. I'm talking about the assistant which allows you to migrate an old account into a new one) the one who was crashing.
Finally I found that the problem was that folder with "root" as owner and group. Just changing the user and group, and moving it to another folder fixed the problem, and allowed me to complete the installation without crashes.
I forgot to comment that I used the live-CD installers in both cases.