Serious Data Loss -- Live CD Installer

[Loïc Martin]

On 5/19/06, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 08:37:39PM -0700, Billy Charlton wrote:
> > - Used Dapper Beta 2 - live CD
> > - GUI Installer
> > - Tried to resize /dev/hda1 to make room for a fresh install of Dapper
> > - Clicked "next" after dragging resizer widget on partition.  The
> > installer brought up a dialog box "Resizing Partition" which was
> > immediately followed by dialog "Resizing Failed".  Now drive shows two
> > partitions, both type "unknown", first partition size was original size
> > - 1, 2nd partition size 1.
>
> (1 what?)
>
> > Now machine won't boot Windows XP.  I've tried using fdisk from live cd
> > to set partition type to HPFS/NTFS, resetting size to full disk size,
> > but still says unbootable.
> >
> > a) Am I now in the doghouse, having hosed the PC?
> > b) Is there any way to get XP back?
> > c) Is there a known bug in the Live CD installer for resizing NTFS, or
> > is this something new?
>
> I desperately need anyone who suffers from this problem (not everyone -
> I do resizing tests pretty regularly myself) NOT to reboot out of the
> live CD, but to save copies of /var/log/installer/syslog and
> /var/log/partman and to provide them in a bug report. There is
> unfortunately very little I can do without the log files, since
> partition tables and filesystems vary so radically.
>
> At the moment, I would also appreciate general testing with current
> daily builds (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/) rather than
> Beta 2 or Flight CD 7. I've fixed a large number of partitioning issues
> in Ubiquity over the last month or so, some of which could have had some
> pretty unpredictable side effects, particularly if you ran the installer
> more than once.
>
> I need people not to follow up to existing likely-looking bug reports
> with their problems, but to file fresh bug reports. I have a lot of
> problems with multiple issues landing in single reports, which makes it
> very difficult to keep track.
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Colin Watson (not working today, honest)           [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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Just tried an install with May 19 Dapper Live Daily build - same problem, a
crash after resize.

The worse is, I had already 2 partitions (swap and ext3), and didn't want to
resize them (I had chosen to manually edit the partition table, but didn't
change anything then just selected these two partitions to be formated (at
no moment there was anything about a resize).
Then after a click to continue, a windows pops up with sthg like
"Resizing..."
At the end of the resizing a window pops up saying " Installer crashed"
Behind, the Installer window is still on and now says it's ready to isntall
and it's going to format the two partitions.

I'll keep the live CD on for about 10 hours starting from now - if anyone is
interested in asking me other details (going to sleep in about 1 hour).

I'll also complete
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/45543

Colin, would you like me to file a bug separately about Ubuquity deciding to
resize my (perfectly valid) partitions when it wasn't asked nor required?

Cheers,
Loïc
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