[Bug 224493] Re: live CD automatically used Solaris partition as swap, corrupting it

[Eliah Kagan]

This (unfortunately) hasn't been attended to for quite some time, and
Ubiquity (the graphical installer) in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron (like
most parts of that release) is no longer maintained (only the Server
version of Hardy is still supported, and that uses debian-installer
rather than Ubiquity). Furthermore, since will be no more point releases
for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, even if this were to be fixed in ubiquity in Hardy,
the improved Ubiquity would never get used. But while there is no sense
in trying to fix this in Hardy, if it's in other releases with upcoming
live CD's, then it is worth investigating it and trying to get it fixed
in those releases.

Right now, there are two versions of Ubuntu that will have subsequently
released desktop install CD's. One version is 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx,
currently on point release 10.04.2, and the other is Ubuntu 10.10
Oneiric Ocelot (the upcoming non-LTS version, expected to be released
this October). If the bug exists and is fixed in Oneiric, that would fix
it for subsequent releases with higher version numbers, such as
p-series, as well (though similar bugs could potentially be reintroduced
later in development).

If you are able to reproduce this bug with the current point release
desktop CD for Lucid (available at http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/) or
with the Oneiric Alpha 2 desktop CD (available at
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/oneiric/alpha-2/) or with an Oneiric
daily-live dated later than the Alpha 2 CD (will be available at
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/), then please open a Terminal
window in the live CD system and run "apport-collect 224493" (without
the quotes). Obviously, you should test this in such a way that, if the
bug is reproduced, valuable data is not actually lost. After running
apport-collect and posting here to provide details about what happened,
this bug can be changed back from Incomplete to New, as at that point
there will probably be enough information provided to enable a developer
to begin work on the bug.

If you are no longer able to reproduce this bug on either 10.04.2 LTS or
the Oneiric development branch, then this bug can be marked Invalid.

** Summary changed:

- ubuntu ate my solaris partition
+ live CD automatically used Solaris partition as swap, corrupting it

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Tags added: hardy

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #530657
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530657

** Also affects: ubiquity via
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530657
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Project changed: ubiquity => gparted

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Title:
  live CD automatically used Solaris partition as swap, corrupting it

Status in Gnome Partition Editor:
  Unknown
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I had a partition with tag bf = solaris
  It contained solaris 10 devel express, but maybe full of zeros might be a test case
  i booted livecd ubuntu-8.04
  It showed swapon -s sda3 and sda7 as active swap sections
  There is no sda7! Maybe its from the livecd /etc/fstab ?
  I ran swapoff sda3
  *** TOO LATE *** although no pages swapped out, the signature was written
  maybe the livecd had already ran mkswap

  I ran ubuntu install,
  in ALT-F1 I ran fdisk, it showed the partition tag bf
  in the GUI, gparted started, I said 'do not touch partition'
  it overwrote the part-tag with 82

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530657
   
  I suspect that mkswap was run for me,
  but I want told, wasnt asked, and am now unhappy
  od -cx shows that the safety watermark is there
  so other things can auto swapon,
  and maybe next time pages will be swapped onto it.

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