[Hardy beta] installer doesn't migrate settings

[iGadget]

At a certain point in the installer, the user is asked if he/she would like to migrate documents and settings. My previous Ubuntu installation (7.04) is properly detected, as well as the users on that installation. I marked all the users I wanted to migrate, but after rebooting, none of the users I marked were present on the system. The only user that was present (myself) had no migrated settings whatsoever, although the installer indicated that it would migrate Firefox, Evolution and GAIM settings.

[Andrew Keyes (akeyes)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't start working on it yet, because your description didn't include enough information.

Please include the information requested at [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUbiquity/AttachingLogs as separate attachments by visiting your bug's web page. Thanks in advance.

[iGadget (igadget)]

So, actually you're asking me to re-install my system? Too bad these logs aren't saved somewhere automatically to be used at a later time, if necessary. Or are they?
Anyway, 'luckily' my Hardy installation died on me when I had a problem with the SATA cable of my main harddrive. So I re-installed today, using the latest Beta live CD.

After rebooting, again none of the settings were migrated. I suspect my partitioning scheme might be the (or a) cause of the problem - I have my /home mounted on a different partition (sdb3), and migration-assistant indicates it's getting it's settings from sda2 (the root fs of my Ubuntu 7.04 setup). However, migration-assistant should be able to handle a configuration like this, since it's quite common (and advisable, IMHO).

I'll attach the logs mentioned on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUbiquity/AttachingLogs .

Hope you have enough info to start working this bug now.

[William Ranvaud (wiranvaud)]

Ubuntu 8.04 support ended on 12 May 2011 for desktops. Closing the bug report...