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

[sudodus]

Now I think it was a glitch due to flaky cooperation with a USB 3 hub,
that I used at the first testing instance. That hub is rather new
(bought this year) and has worked before except with one particular
pendrive (which was not used in any of these tests). It has worked with
many linux operating systems, also for booting. But it works only
sometimes with Lubuntu 14.10 (otherwise boots to a text screen with some
error output), and I suspect it was involved in the failure to continue
from the window, which complained that swap could not be created in the
live drive.

Tiny Core, ToriOS, Mageia work,

xubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-i386.iso and ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso do
not work (but worked until some week ago) ...

so I think the USB 3 hub is failing, or at least, it has changed somehow
and lost the ability to cooperate with some operating systems and or
pendrives during booting.

The modern Ubuntu based distros, versions, flavours work when booted
directly from the USB port in the computer (but not via the hub and the
same USB port).

-o-

So I don't think there was any quick fix. 'Install alongside' worked and
works like this: When it cannot install into the unallocated space in
the live drive, it returns to the partitioning page, and at the next
attempt, it will let the user share the space in the other drive, and
install Lubuntu 14.10 alongside the previous operating system(s).

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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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