[Bug 657397] Re: Install alongside option displays incorrect device designations

[Erick Brunzell]

@ Dave Walker,

I think we'd be foolish to rip into ubiquity this late in Oneiric for
such a relatively minor bug. Note what I said in post #2:

#1: If someone is really paying attention they can either choose the
advanced option or quit the install.

#2: If they're not paying attention the install seems to do the right
thing anyway so they'll never know.

I'd much prefer this be looked at again in P ;^)

IMHO the most serious bug in ubiquity is bug 766265, and even with that,
I'd hate to see ubiquity torn into this late in the process.

I've tested extensively, beyond the prescribed iso-testing criteria,
with Oneiric Beta 2 and I've found no conditions under which we'd cause
a loss of data as we did with bug 655950. I think we must never risk
such a thing again, unless it's very early in the Alpha stage of
development when only experienced testers should be installing
recklessly.

Many thanks, Lance.

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Title:
  Install alongside option displays incorrect device designations

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Natty:
  Won't Fix
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Oneiric:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  While iso-testing the Maverick final I noticed that after choosing the
  auto-resize option the gui that allows you to "resize" using the
  "slider" displays incorrect device info.

  First of all here's what I started with:

  lance at lance-desktop:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdb print
  [sudo] password for lance: 
  Model: ATA WDC WD800JB-00JJ (scsi)
  Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0GB
  Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
  Partition Table: msdos

  Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system     Flags
   1      1049kB  11.5GB  11.5GB  primary   ext4            boot
   2      11.5GB  23.0GB  11.5GB  primary   ext4
   3      23.0GB  56.1GB  33.1GB  primary   ext4
   4      56.1GB  80.0GB  24.0GB  extended
   5      56.1GB  77.7GB  21.7GB  logical   ext4
   6      77.7GB  80.0GB  2297MB  logical   linux-swap(v1)

  That is three 10.10's, the one on sdb1 has a separate /home on sdb5,
  the other two on sdb2 and sdb3 have no separate /home. They all share
  the same swap.

  During installation the gui showed that it was going to resize sdb3 to
  16.8GB and create a ne16.3GB sdb4. Of course that would not be
  possible since I have three primary partitions and an extended,
  regardless this is what it really did:

  ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdb print
  Model: ATA WDC WD800JB-00JJ (scsi)
  Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0GB
  Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
  Partition Table: msdos

  Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system     Flags
   1      1049kB  11.5GB  11.5GB  primary   ext4            boot
   2      11.5GB  23.0GB  11.5GB  primary   ext4
   3      23.0GB  39.8GB  16.8GB  primary   ext4
   4      39.8GB  80.0GB  40.3GB  extended
   7      39.8GB  55.3GB  15.6GB  logical   ext4
   8      55.3GB  56.1GB  730MB   logical   linux-swap(v1)
   5      56.1GB  77.7GB  21.7GB  logical   ext4
   6      77.7GB  80.0GB  2297MB  logical   linux-swap(v1)

  As you can see it actually resized everything quite well. Darn
  impressive I must say!

  So it's simply a matter of the gui showing improper info and I'd
  consider that very low priority.

  At any rate I wanted apport to collect info for the devs, but I'll add
  more comments later after I get into a more comfortable modified
  Ubuntu that suits my vision ;^)

  Overall I'm very impressed with the new ubiquity.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.4.8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Oct  9 11:58:05 2010
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity

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