[Dapper Beta livecd] espresso destroyed my partitions

[Daniel Franke]

When trying to install kubuntu 6.06 beta i386 through espresso, espresso crashed after I gave it my user information. Upon closer inspection all the partitions on my hard drive where gone along with all the data.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

If you still have the live CD running, I'd like you to attach /var/log/installer/espresso to this bug. Was there anything unusual about your partition table?

parted has a 'rescue' function which may help reconstruct the partition table.

[inkubus (francis-belanger)]

Same issue in this bug report:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/40555/+index

[Maximilian Kossick (maximilian-kossick)]

Same thing happened to me. I have 4 primary partitions (hda: swap, hda2: / (ext3), hda3: /home (ext3), hda4: Win XP (FAT32)).
I was able to recover the old partition table using gpart: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/espresso/+bug/40464

[Daniel Franke (d-franke)]

I rebooted before I found out the partition table was gone and I didn't know about the partition rescue mode. I didn't lose much essential data though but thanks for the tip.

[Maximilian Kossick (maximilian-kossick)]

I think you can still recover your partitions as long as you didn't overwrite anything (e.g. installed ubuntu again). I rebooted a few times before I noticed that my partitions were gone, and I was able to recover them without a problem.

[Daniel Franke (d-franke)]

I already overwritten the partitions but I also restored all the data
I lost, thanks tho.

On 4/21/06, Maximilian Kossick <email address hidden> wrote:
> I think you can still recover your partitions as long as you didn't
> overwrite anything (e.g. installed ubuntu again). I rebooted a few times
> before I noticed that my partitions were gone, and I was able to recover
> them without a problem.
>
> --
> [Dapper Beta livecd] espresso destroyed my partitions
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/40557
>

[Jake (jakepoz)]

Attached is an error log from when I tried to test expresso. The installer crashed at the user-input screen, but thankfully my partition table is still ok. However, the installer won't start up again.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This is also bug 40464, so I'll mark it as a duplicate. I think I have a good handle on the problem now and should have it fixed soon; my apologies for the inconvenience and/or data loss caused.

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