Installer of 9.10 crash after importing documents and settings

[jpcote]

With desktop and an alternate installation cd of Karmic Koala 9.10 and on a cd and on a USB drive and in french or english.
At 89%, at the stage of "importing documents and settings" the installer crash and then i have a windows saying :

Application problem
Sorry, the program "ubiquity" closed unexpectedly

When looking at the new partition that was programmed to be mounted as /home, i can see that the Document folder (/home/jp/Documents) was trying to copy all the files contained in my windows XP profile.
Easy to understand that if this windows folder contained 33,8 gig and that my new linux partition for the /home only has 15 gig allocated, it won't work.

HELP :
So, how to stop the Ubuntu installer from copying my personnal Windows folder?

The bug is :
- The installer copy my Windows folder to his new partition without my permission.
- Once it does it, it doesn't check if there is enough space in the new location, so it crashes when it gets full.
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I'm at my 6th or seventh installation now that I can figure out the cause... arg!

[jpcote (jp-cotegraphiste)]

I've deleted enough stuff on my original Windows folder in order to make the copying fit the new partition. I wasn't enought, the installation still crashed.

More info :
I had originally a partition sdb3 that contained my /home. I wasn't sure how Ubuntu would manage it : if I chose the same user, would it overwrite the documents, should I chose another one, I didn't know so I made a copy of sdb3 on sdb8. Eventhough I choosed sdb3 to be formatted and be called /home the installer was using sdb8.

I had no option to chose what i want to import until I delete my backup partition sdb8.
Since this, the installatation was successful.

I suggest that there is a short documentation at the partitioning stage so people understand how ubuntu will manage their backup user partition on a new installation.

[Ludwin Janvier (lud-janvier)]

This is dup of #234835. You'll certainly find a solution in any of the comments (else, don't leave a bug, ask a question).

[jpcote (jp-cotegraphiste)]

Sorry this is a bug. Nobody should have to reinstall it 6 ou 7 time until they realise that the system doesn't tell what it needs to work properly. Nobody should i have to desactivate something to make it work properly, and where whould i call this : "ubiquity --no-migration-assistant". I don't want to know, I just want it to work.

Solution to correct this bug:
1- After a manual partitionning, Ubiquity check if there a partition that is already called /home and make the user chose. (something like : Oh I see you already have an installation on /home, you're a cleaver linux user so I'll make you save your datas, do you want to use the same user name or create another one and access your datas once Ubuntu is fully installed?
2- If it's too complicated, obey to what the user said. If he chose a new partition to be /home, don't look anywhere else, and install it to this exact location. So the user can try to restore is data hardfully later (mine are already lost).

Once this is done, the migration assistant work perfectly and make the user chose if they want to import their Windows documents. (my recommandation would be to just to make a shortcut instead of a copy).

Hope this bug get solved by a programmer, not by the users.

[Nicolas Rigaud (balata1972)]

jpcote a écrit :
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 234835 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234835
>
> Sorry this is a bug. Nobody should have to reinstall it 6 ou 7 time
> until they realise that the system doesn't tell what it needs to work
> properly. Nobody should i have to desactivate something to make it work
> properly, and where whould i call this : "ubiquity --no-migration-
> assistant". I don't want to know, I just want it to work.
>
> Solution to correct this bug:
> 1- After a manual partitionning, Ubiquity check if there a partition that is already called /home and make the user chose. (something like : Oh I see you already have an installation on /home, you're a cleaver linux user so I'll make you save your datas, do you want to use the same user name or create another one and access your datas once Ubuntu is fully installed?
> 2- If it's too complicated, obey to what the user said. If he chose a new partition to be /home, don't look anywhere else, and install it to this exact location. So the user can try to restore is data hardfully later (mine are already lost).
>
> Once this is done, the migration assistant work perfectly and make the
> user chose if they want to import their Windows documents. (my
> recommandation would be to just to make a shortcut instead of a copy).
>
> Hope this bug get solved by a programmer, not by the users.
>
>

[Nicolas Rigaud (balata1972)]

jpcote a écrit :
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 234835 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234835
>
> Sorry this is a bug. Nobody should have to reinstall it 6 ou 7 time
> until they realise that the system doesn't tell what it needs to work
> properly. Nobody should i have to desactivate something to make it work
> properly, and where whould i call this : "ubiquity --no-migration-
> assistant". I don't want to know, I just want it to work.
>
> Solution to correct this bug:
> 1- After a manual partitionning, Ubiquity check if there a partition that is already called /home and make the user chose. (something like : Oh I see you already have an installation on /home, you're a cleaver linux user so I'll make you save your datas, do you want to use the same user name or create another one and access your datas once Ubuntu is fully installed?
> 2- If it's too complicated, obey to what the user said. If he chose a new partition to be /home, don't look anywhere else, and install it to this exact location. So the user can try to restore is data hardfully later (mine are already lost).
>
> Once this is done, the migration assistant work perfectly and make the
> user chose if they want to import their Windows documents. (my
> recommandation would be to just to make a shortcut instead of a copy).
>
> Hope this bug get solved by a programmer, not by the users.
>
>

[jpcote (jp-cotegraphiste)]

Alright, I've done my part. I've described it has clearly has I could in the 2 years old bug 234835.
Hope I've helped to make Ubuntu better.