[Bug 292223] Re: migration-assistant dies with separate home partition

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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

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Title:
  migration-assistant dies with separate home partition

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  My partition schema
  --------------------------
      * sda1 - 2GB - SWAP
      * sda2 - 10GB - root partition (with Ubuntu 8.04.1 installed)
      * sda3 - all the remaining space - /home

  Installation
  ---------------
  I start the Ubuntu installer, fill in all required data, tell the system that I want to format my sda2 partition and mount it as the root (”/”) and to mount my sda3 partition as /home (without formatting it). A few more clicks and the system was installing, time to take a coffee.

  Here comes a problem, I’m back from my coffee and I see no installer
  on my screen, it’s crashed! So I’m launching it again, retype my info
  but I can’t see my partitions anymore…

  Rebooting…

  Relaunching the installer, filling data and start the installation
  process, it’s about to finish when it crashes again, I take a look
  here and there in the logs and see that’s something about the
  migration assistant (actually I have nothing to migrate, I’m using my
  old home directory…).

  Rebooting again…

  I remember that’s possible to launch the installer disabling the migration assistant thus I open a terminal and type:
  sudo ubiquity --no-migration-assistant
  and do it all again, this time everything goes fine and I can boot my wonderful Intrepid from my disk.

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