[Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: [Bug 976258] Re: migration assistant full disk install crash precise 12.04 amd64

Tue Apr 10 02:53:58 UTC 2012

Well as I stated earlier I expected the Ubiquity bug might just be
temporary.
Just did three amd64 installs and they went clean as a whistle.
nm_geo Greg

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Greg Faith <gregfaith at gmail.com> wrote:

> By the way, if you or anyone needs them I have screenshots of ever page of
> the install.  Well of the second attempt anyway, I ran those install a few
> times
> just to make sure.
> nm_geo Greg
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:45  PM, Greg Faith <gregfaith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As far as the ubiquity bug I was testing daily current builds and got a
>> automated
>> bug report so I let it complete. In fact I got two crashes during the
>> manual install
>> and the full drive.  I think these will probably be corrected as the
>> Beta2 matures
>> closer to the release date, but better safe than sorry on those bug
>> reports. At times,
>> during the install a screen comes up and ask if you would like to migrate
>> any of the
>> dat from other partitions that is the migration assistant's job.  I never
>> select any of
>> them but sometimes it still crashes the install.  On the full drive
>> installation I even
>> cleared my testing HDD with Gparted all 320GB were free unallocated and
>> it still
>> crashed on the install.
>>
>> Now concerning the pcmanfm, it appears to my untrained eyes that the
>> different
>> spins of Lubuntu 12.04 behave differently. I have had no issues with with
>> pcmanfm
>> using the amd64 spin in recent days and I do not think Lance has had any
>> with the
>> i386 spin.  So I think the issues may be confined to others like powerpc.
>> I am not
>> sure at all I just have not had any recent problems with pcmanfm.
>>
>> I plan to do more daily build testing to check on the ubiquity migration
>> assistant
>> issues because those are tough to deal with and some new users will just
>> give up.
>> They don't like to be told try the alternate iso (which I would always
>> use).
>>
>> nm_geo Greg
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Karl Anliot <kanliot at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Greg,   I really don't know much, but you could explain this
>>> "ubiquity data migration bug" thing to me?
>>>
>>> Also was looking at your pcmanfm bugs.  I've notice PCManFM is still
>>> crashing if I leave it open for long enough. :(
>>> anyhow I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing so I'm not going to CC the
>>> mailing list on this.
>>> thanks
>>> kanliot
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Greg Faith <gregfaith at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Obviously, all the Ubiquity data migration bugs are not squashed yet.
>>> I was
>>> > just doing some current daily testing to see how things are
>>> progressing, and
>>> > I am aware we are getting quite a few changes daily. Hope these don't
>>> > continue to the Final release testing.  This one just does not make
>>> sense to
>>> > me as it was a full disk install and no data transfer needed.  Thought
>>> I
>>> > would make you guys aware.
>>> >
>>> > nm_geo Greg
>>> >
>>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> > From: Ubuntu QA Website <976258 at bugs.launchpad.net>
>>> > Date: Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 4:45 PM
>>> > Subject: [Bug 976258] Re: migration assistant full disk install crash
>>> > precise 12.04 amd64
>>> > To: gregfaith at gmail.com
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.
>>> >
>>> > A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
>>> > http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/976258
>>> >
>>> > ** Tags added: iso-testing
>>> >
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>>> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/976258
>>> >
>>> > Title:
>>> >  migration assistant full disk install crash precise 12.04 amd64
>>> >
>>> > Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
>>> >  New
>>> >
>>> > Bug description:
>>> >  Beta 2 daily-current iso testing 20120407 on Lubuntu precise-desktop
>>> >  amd64 strange error on sda6 could not find  There should be no sda6 on
>>> >  this full disk install.
>>> >
>>> >  ProblemType: Bug
>>> >  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
>>> >  Package: ubiquity 2.10.8
>>> >  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14
>>> >  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic x86_64
>>> >  ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
>>> >  Architecture: amd64
>>> >  CasperVersion: 1.314
>>> >  Date: Sat Apr  7 16:26:40 2012
>>> >  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz noprompt
>>> > cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed
>>> > boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
>>> >  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64
>>> (20120407)
>>> >  ProcEnviron:
>>> >   TERM=unknown
>>> >   PATH=(custom, no user)
>>> >   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>> >   SHELL=/bin/bash
>>> >  SourcePackage: ubiquity
>>> >  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>>> >
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