[Bug 931436] Re: Install / upgrade failed, & I can't rescue my user data

[Sam_]

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Title:
  Install / upgrade failed, & I can't rescue my user data

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  My ununtu desktop failed to boot one day, saying "no init found". I could not get past this, including going back to previous configurations.
  So I downloaded the latest version, burned a CD and tried to install that.
  Booting from the CD is OK, but I can't get my old user data. The old /home/ is extracted under some ecryptfs scheme, with instructions to run "ecryptfs-mount-private", which crashes with the message "private directory is not set up correctly".

  Tried to install from the CD (before & after reboot - same result) -
  use the option to upgrade and keep the old user account, but the
  install fails with partition manager failed with 141 - goodbye.

  What does 141 mean? Is there any way I can recover that data?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.8.7 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.287
  Date: Mon Feb 13 13:34:11 2012
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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