[Bug 1382991] Re: ubiquity install alongside points to wrong device letter

[sudodus]

Trying with the next uploaded iso file, dated 20141020 and with the
md5sum 42a489628386a2b7faacc67db1ab8649 there was an improvement. I
don't know exactly why, because I haven't saved the old iso file to try
again, and I cannot easily find if it was a temporary glitch the last
time or some debugging action, that makes it work now. (Maybe there was
a quick fix by someone who knows this part of Ubiquity well after the
recent debug action of 'Install alongside'.)

Ubiquity still wants to install into the unallocated space behind the
iso9660 file system on the live drive and complains that it cannot
create the swap space, but now, when I click on OK, it does not get
stuck, but returns to the partitioning page, and the next time I try
'Install alongside' it lets me share the space in the other drive (by
dividing the ext4 partition into one part for the existing system and
one part for the system to be installed now).

I could drag the boundary, as expected, and the installation succeeded
:-)

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Title:
  ubiquity install alongside points to wrong device letter

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  ISO-testing Lubuntu 32-bit desktop I found a bug that ris at best only
  confusing, at worst installing to the wrong drive.

  Background: Installing from a USB pendrive to another USB drive. The
  live drive is /dev/sdb. The target drive has a system already
  installed (Trusty, which is found and reported).

  Error: Ubiquity reports that it will format partitions 5 and 6 on sdb
  (the live drive) instead of the intended target drive sda (where it
  found Trusty). See the attached screendump.

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  I will continue this testcase and report what will happen when I continue ...

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.20.0
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-22.29-generic 3.16.4
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-22-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.345
  CurrentDesktop: LXDE
  Date: Sun Oct 19 15:44:41 2014
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha i386 (20141016)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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