Ubuntu
ubiquity package

  1. Bug #493479
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 493479

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othrayte (othrayte) wrote :

Ok so, this problem seems to be caused by running ubiquity within a liveboot that was booted from an iso file on the hdd (in my case I used grub2's loopback interface). It would seem that the migration assistant wanted to access other files on the partition that had the iso on it and refused to run without unmounting the partition, which I assumed wouldn't be good for the live system.

Simply calling ubiquity using "ubiquity --no-migration-assistant" from the command line instead of the shortcut on the live desktop prevented the migration assistant from complaining.

It would be nice if ubiquity could tell that the liveboot came from an iso file that is still mounted, (ie check if the /isodevice (created I assume by grub2) mount folder exists and offer to not run the migration assistant, either at all or give a warning and then use the assistant on the other partitions that it can access.

ALL IN ALL THIS ISN'T REALLY A BUG!