Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ubiquity
Ubiquity - Karmic Koala
If you use ubiquity to install Ubuntu to your drive, but there is a NTFS
disk present that contains some minor inconsistencies (like some
clusters that are linked multiple times) ubiquity crashes. It crashes at
the point when it is trying to import data from the Windows XP system on
this drive (another point it does do this without asking, or giving an
opportunity to skip it!!!). Because of the inconsistencies this drive
could not be mounted in linux, probably that caused the crash.
Unfortunately, after fixing the problem, I am unable to reproduce the
bug, so I cannot deliver any log files. But before I understood the
reason of the crash, it was very reproducable, took me 6 times of
reinstalling...
The only fix I had, was to plug out the whole harddisk by the way, as it
is impossible to skip the import of old Windows files (and there was not
anything interesting on there...), I could not figure out howto fix my
NTFS partition from within linux besides ntfsfix (but that only flags
the partition so Windows will fix it at the next boot), and because I
managed to damage my old grub before my fresh install, I could not boot
into Windows either...
Would be good if ubiquity just continues when it encounters an error when
importing files instead of crashing
(And secondly would be nice if you could skip the import procedure, as an
advanced option or something)
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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ubiquity crashes trying to fetch info from inconsistent NTFS drive
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/469544
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