Comment 0 for bug 937393

This crash was an 11.10 to 11.10 upgrade crash.

The upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10 crashed first, and rendered the system compromised. Specifically, my /home directories were "gone" and I couldn't login with the GUI.

I was able to decrypt my user data using the shell in recovery mode, then I proceeded to reinstall 11.10. Since program data was intact, I selected the option to do 11.10 to 11.10 rather than wipe the old install and reinstall.

The crash happened right after the installer reported that a vmware file didn't match (between the 11.10 DVD ROM and the old installation). I told it to retry, it appeared to be proceeding normally once more, then BOOM (crash).

Perhaps my hard drive is bad, though it checked out ok before I did this install. Or perhaps the DVD has errors, though it did verify cleanly after writing in a different machine. Or perhaps there is actually a bug in the installer.

Best regards,
-r

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Mon Feb 20 20:08:57 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)