Serious Data Loss -- Live CD Installer

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:04:44PM +0000, Loïc Martin wrote:
> 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?

Thanks for the information. I think I have the problem nailed down now;
I'll be uploading a fix shortly. There's no need to file another bug
about this.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]