[Bug 1418706] Re: Vivid: UEFI: blank drive incorrectly detected as existing BIOS-mode install

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

I've been looking into this last night and this morning; fix for
partman-auto is now in the queue for review by archive admins.

Looks like this was because efi recipes used "free" rather than
explicitly setting the partition filesystem type to "fat32" or some
value of FAT as per the UEFI spec; so for some reason this showed up as
ext3 until the partition was properly formatted, which would have
happened *after* the extra uefi warning, if it wasn't breaking things in
other ways.

I'm splitting this into a separate bug for the Force UEFI warning which
appears to be handled incorrectly and is worded in a confusing manner.

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Invalid

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: ubuntu-15.04 => None

** Also affects: partman-auto (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: partman-auto (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: partman-auto (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Critical

** Changed in: partman-auto (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl)

** Changed in: partman-auto (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-15.04

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Title:
  Vivid: UEFI: blank drive incorrectly detected as existing BIOS-mode
  install

Status in partman-auto package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in partman-efi package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  When doing a UEFI-mode install using the latest daily Vivid ISO (Thu
  Feb 5), Ubiquity incorrectly concludes that a blank drive contains an
  existing BIOS-mode install (see error in attached screenshot).

  The resulting error dialog is also broken: none of the buttons do any
  thing when clicked: X (close button), "Go Back", "Continue".

  You can seemingly move the install forward by clicking "Continue" in
  the main installer window, but things are still broken somewhere as
  grub isn't getting correctly installed (system is unbootable after the
  install completes).

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