Auto-resize install fails to mount drive

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Looks like this is caused by the new PolicyKit setup.

Steps to reproduce:

* Install a copy of Ubuntu, using the whole disk, no LVM
* Install again from the Live CD, and use the auto-resize option

Result:
* You are asked for the admin password to mount the partition (which is confusing if you don't know the password is blank
* On entering the blank password a 'Cannot mount volume' error appears.
* Clicking OK resumes the process though - The resizing progress bar sits for a long time at 50% but does complete. The system then installs successfully

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

It shouldn't be trying to mount this at all. GNOME keeps changing this around and breaking ubiquity ...

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I think hal is doing this (via hal-storage-mount). My conjecture is that hal-disable-polling needs to be called on each drive to turn it off.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Could you try running ubiquity as follows:

  hal-lock --interface org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage --exclusive --run ubiquity

... and see if it behaves the same way?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Something like "sudo hal-lock --interface org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage --exclusive --run /usr/sbin/ubiquity" should help, if we can put that into the desktop file?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

With blocking mounts at the hal level, we can also drop the various nautilus/g-v-m/KIO configuration tweaks.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

If so, something like this attachment would do the job.

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

It installs fine now, but on completion it does open a nautilus window at /lib/var/OS-prober on the Live file system (other disks are not mounted).

I then tried running ubiquity with

hal-lock --interface org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage --exclusive --run ubiquity

and that works fine as well.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 1.8.0

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ubiquity (1.8.0) hardy; urgency=low

  * Disable the intro message in preparation for Ubuntu 8.04 beta.
  * Run ubiquity under hal-lock if possible (LP: #199129).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:49:26 +0000