Gutsy: Import user didn't succeed - data loss occured

The bug here is that migration-assistant failed to properly remove all of the partitions, as you selected "use the entire disk", from the list of available partitions to import from. I apologize for the data loss that occurred.

Thank you for your concern, and the explanation. I had already migrated all my data to a new computer. I just figured I had to test this feature before I let my sister get the old computer. So the data loss didn't really hurt that much this time.

ubiquity (1.6.4) gutsy; urgency=low

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Only set migration-assistant data in user-setup if updating an existing
    user (LP: #135149).
  * Properly filter out partitions marked for deletion in
    migrationassistant.py (LP: #146222).
  * Fixed a bug where the migration-assistant page would not be updated to
    reflect changes, such as if the user went back and partitioned
    differently, if the page had already been shown.

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Copy over detected xserver-xorg changes to ensure BulletProofX
    is functional after installation. This behavior is temporary
    for gutsy and will be removed after the BulletProofX spec is
    reworked.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Automatic update of included source packages: migration-assistant 0.5.3.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:11:38 +0100

Runar,

If you have a free moment, can you please test that choosing to use the whole disk in the partitioner leaves you with no users to import from on the migration-assistant page using the latest daily desktop CD (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/)? Let me know if it is, or is not, in fact fixed for you.

Thanks!

Evan,

Choosing the whole disk gave no option of importing user. Likewise using the manual partitioner to define formatting of the whole partition.

Then I chose resize, which never went on after successfully reduzing the size of the existing partition. I closed the installer, then started it again. There was a new option to use existing free space. I chose to use free space and got the import user choice. I chose to import the old user (nora) to a new user (per). I clicked "next" and created a new user (nora), that also gave the name to the computer (nora-laptop).

I will leave a new comment and attachments with the results.

This means the problem won't appear as originally described in this bug report, though.

Runar,
On a side note, if you are ever able to reproduce the installer presumably hanging after a successful resize, could you please file a new bug with the logs from that system?

Thanks!

Evan, I'll do that.

This time, the import user worked like it should. This bug is fixed. I'll attach the installer logs for this install attempt.