[Bug 1208109] [NEW] frustrated ubuntu user

[Roger Ramjet]

Public bug reported:

I am trying to install ubuntu 11.10 over 12.10, because I absolutely
hate the pgm "disks" in 12.10.  It won't even format a thumb drive, and
whatever I do in "disks" adversely affects the behavior of my hd, and in
a way that I do not know how to undo.  I lost 8 gigs of backup data
using "disks" on a thumb drive.  I have never complained before about
ubuntu freeware, but I really do hate "disks". It is apparently for very
advanced users.  A time-consuming learning curve is apparently necessary
in order to properly use "disks".  I want a basic, intuitive disk
utility that doesn't mess up either your thumb drive or your hd --
something that can do simple things like format a thumb drive without
going to college, and without making the thumb drive unmountable.  I am
really pissed with "disks".  I have never before had trouble installing
11.10 over anything, but now it doesn't want to install over 12.10,
perhaps because of something "disks" did to my hd?  In my frustration
with "disks" I had used an old OS X machine to format my thumb drive,
and had it write a classic Mac boot partition, because I also have a
classic Mac, which I was going to use to format the drive if all else
failed.  But after mounting the drive in ubuntu, ubuntu insisted that
the thumb drive should be there at startup.  After that, it took me
three days to get "disks" to format the thumb drive, and I don't
remember how I did it, but in the process I made a different thumb drive
-- wirh 8 gigs of backup data -- unmountable.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Sat Aug  3 22:53:57 2013
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 oneiric ubiquity-2.8.7

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Title:
  frustrated ubuntu user

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I am trying to install ubuntu 11.10 over 12.10, because I absolutely
  hate the pgm "disks" in 12.10.  It won't even format a thumb drive,
  and whatever I do in "disks" adversely affects the behavior of my hd,
  and in a way that I do not know how to undo.  I lost 8 gigs of backup
  data using "disks" on a thumb drive.  I have never complained before
  about ubuntu freeware, but I really do hate "disks". It is apparently
  for very advanced users.  A time-consuming learning curve is
  apparently necessary in order to properly use "disks".  I want a
  basic, intuitive disk utility that doesn't mess up either your thumb
  drive or your hd -- something that can do simple things like format a
  thumb drive without going to college, and without making the thumb
  drive unmountable.  I am really pissed with "disks".  I have never
  before had trouble installing 11.10 over anything, but now it doesn't
  want to install over 12.10, perhaps because of something "disks" did
  to my hd?  In my frustration with "disks" I had used an old OS X
  machine to format my thumb drive, and had it write a classic Mac boot
  partition, because I also have a classic Mac, which I was going to use
  to format the drive if all else failed.  But after mounting the drive
  in ubuntu, ubuntu insisted that the thumb drive should be there at
  startup.  After that, it took me three days to get "disks" to format
  the thumb drive, and I don't remember how I did it, but in the process
  I made a different thumb drive -- wirh 8 gigs of backup data --
  unmountable.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.287
  Date: Sat Aug  3 22:53:57 2013
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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