[Bug 1240794] Re: In partitioner 'select something else' deleting and adding a partition causes crash

[Andy Whitcroft]

I believe this can be reproduced taking a previously 'side-by-side'
install as a base point:

1) Boot the installer with this as your existing disk,
2) Select the 'Something else' partition option,
3) Delete the root partition for the 'second' install (which for me is the first extended partition on the disk) by hitting '-',
4) Recreate this partition exactly as offered, selecting '/' as its mount point by hitting '+',
5) Attempt to tick the 'format' tickable.

Ubiquity will stop responding and you should find the python oops in
/var/log/installer/debug.

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Title:
  In partitioner 'select something else' deleting and adding a partition
  causes crash

Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Attemptin a side by side install after using auto-resize (i.e. manual)
  Selecting "Something Else" then deleting the partion I wanted to re-
  use and returning it to free space. Then selected it and selected it
  to be used as "/" (other defaults left as is e.g. ext4...) When I then
  selected the swap partition to be used as swap. the installer crashed
  with the above attached details. This happened twice on the row; hence
  my raising it as a bug.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.15.26
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.336ubuntu1
  Date: Thu Oct 17 04:00:10 2013
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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