[Bug 276093] Re: Ubiquity crashes silently if the user-dir cannot be created

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[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  Ubiquity crashes silently if the user-dir cannot be created

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Excuse me for having no trace-log, but I had no internet on the moment of installing on this pc.
  This bug occurs on both 8.04 as 8.10.

  I use sda2 as "/", sda3 as "/home", sda4 as "/opt". When the installer
  wants to create /home/vincent which already exists and is empty, it
  crashes. The reason I have an empty directory is that I moved all
  files to a backup-location.

  So there are 2 problems:
  - Ubiquity crashes when the home-directory already exists and is empty.
  - feedback is bad: I was not really aware the install failed and thought it was just finished. I've searched a lot for "grub error 15". This problem is with every crash! Idea 1: Let Grub show a message "the install did not succeed" and some explanation. Idea 2: wrap Ubiquity in a crash-handler which could give better feedback to the user.

  If needed, I could do some more tests.

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