[Bug 576881] Re: Ubiquity mounts wrong Linux partition

[Brian Murray]

** Tags added: ubiquity-2.2.24

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Title:
  Ubiquity mounts wrong Linux partition

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu.
      Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx
  2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy packagename' or by checking in Synaptic.
      Ubiquity - 2.2.24
  3) What you expected to happen
  4) What happened instead

  NOTE: I had Karmic(9.04) installed in /dev/sda5. and didn't want to
  replace it with Lucid, for some reasons.

  I selected /dev/sda11 and had asked Ubiquity to format it with Ext4 FS
  and mount '/' in it. No separate mount points were specified for /boot
  or /home. Swap was given as  /dev/sda6.

  It mounted /dev/sda11 in /target and started copying files which went
  fine. It also downloaded latest package files from net.

  But after this, at one point, it unmounted all devices and STRANGELY,
  MOUNTED /dev/sda5 IN /target [INSTEAD OF /dev/sda11 ]  AND BINDED
  /dev, /proc etc in /target/dev, /target/proc etc. AND chrooted INTO
  /target and started configuring hardware, installing grub etc.

  This, of course, failed to correctly complete the installation process
  given that /dev/sda11 should have been mounted instead of /dev/sda5.

  I have verified this with other computers and the bug is repeatable.
  That is, if there is another Linux system in a lower partition number
  (here 5<11) then for some unknown reasons the wrong device is mounted.
  :-( If there is no Linux system or the one is being over written, then
  installation completes successfully.

  NOTE: Please note that ubiquity was run again and manually interrupted
  during that second run and i mounted the correct file system enabling
  successful completion of install process. Hence the attached
  '/var/log/syslog' file will indicate two runs of Ubiquity.  I WAS
  ASKED TO ATTACH '/var/log/partman' ALSO, BUT LAUNCHPAD ALLOWS ONLY ONE
  FILE TO BE UPLOADED.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.2.24
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri May  7 18:58:20 2010
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity

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