Public bug reported:
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.
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Ubiquity crashes silently if the user-dir cannot be created
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276093
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