batshit insane btrfs installer assume default subvolume is root subvolume

[shawnlandden]

if you set the default subvolume of a btrfs volume like so
mkfs.btrfs /dev/blasterdisk
mount /dev/blasterdisk /mnt
cd /mnt
btrfs subvolume create foo .
btrfs subvolume set-default foo .
cd ..
umount /mnt

and the install WITHOUT reformatting

then the installer will:

1. create subvolumes foo/@ and foo/@home
2. do no error checking: i.e. if a @ subvolume already exists, lets say you set @ as the default, then the system will install into @, and then the installer will crash while trying to mount @home (when it created @/@home)

while your at it you should also fix upstream, and make it work equally bad with btrfs

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.9.23
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.305
Date: Tue Mar 20 23:23:09 2012
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=unknown
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[shawnlandden (shawnlandden)]

also, the installer should have a feature to continue where is left off, even if undocumented and hidden

[shawnlandden (shawnlandden)]

the ideal fix for this is to detect the default subvolume (and perhaps expose it in the interface) and then make the new subvolume childs of that (as it currently does) and then actually properly handle these new subvolumes (broken)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Mar 21 06:22:44 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Mar 21 06:22:44 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1690, in <module>
Mar 21 06:22:44 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Mar 21 06:22:44 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
Mar 21 06:22:44 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Mar 21 06:22:44 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 166, in run
Mar 21 06:22:44 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.configure_face()
Mar 21 06:22:44 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 271, in configure_face
Mar 21 06:22:44 ubuntu plugininstall.py: uid = int(uid)
Mar 21 06:22:44 ubuntu plugininstall.py: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
Mar 21 06:22:44 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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