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@marcatq - does running `os-prober` in a terminal show any other
operating systems installed? If you run `journalctl -f` in another
terminal you'll see the debug output from os-prober - it should test
each partition in turn using a different script for each possible OS -
It appears that Windows update may have spread this problem. I'm trying
to do a dual boot install, and the install utility for 14.04.3 can't
detect my existing OS (Windows 7). From what I understand, the windows
update will put windows 8.1 and windows 10 files onto computers that
haven't updated
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failed to start Ubuntu failed to start due to following:
http:\\ubuntu\winboot\wubild.mbr is missing
please help ,,,thanks.
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Just lost ALL of my windows data because of this . What a completely
awful installer to offer such a misleading option. By erase ubuntu, I
expected it to erase UBUNTU, not my hard drive. Cannot express how much
I lost because of this installer
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help me to fix bugs on my ubuntu please. im new user. cant use desktop
manager. i've installed this
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Hi Permula,
I think you are in the wrong place. Try these:
http://www.ubuntu.com/support (also try phrase your can't use desktop
manager more clearly there) and
https://help.ubuntu.com/ (documentation)
Regards,
Jan
On 7 April 2015 at 17:55, pemula faizs...@gmail.com wrote:
help me to fix
Barry's problem could be caused by the issues with 1 drive described in
#109 - the installer has no concept of multiple drives and will always
choose to install on /dev/sda by default, even if the previous Ubuntu
install is on another drive.
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According to the date this was release, it should have been included in
the latest point release for Trusty: 14.04.2, downloadable here:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/trusty/
If you're using an earlier release, it wouldn't be in.
It's possible you've run into a different issue; please file a
If the fix is committed, when does it get included in the downloadable
iso? This bug just wiped an attached hard drive on me with *No* Warning.
1TB of recordings data.
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sto caricando ubuntukylin 14.10.posso continuare?
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corrego,sto salvando file,sono in download.
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This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.18.8.3
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[ Stéphane Graber ]
* Fix Windows UEFI detection. (LP: #1265192)
[ Colin Watson ]
* Exclude free space from counts of deleted partitions.
* There are far too many
This has nothing at all to do with gparted and the failure to detect the
windows installation is only a contributing cause. The real issue is
the *wording* of the option that makes it sound like nothing but the
existing Ubuntu install will be deleted when instead, the entire disk is
erased.
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See these links (which are related to this bug)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2259055p=13199638#post13199638
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2259055p=13199723#post13199723
I opened a new thread on this. I was successful in detecting Windows
bootloader and partioning
I was advised to post this:
It worked but not in the way Bruno described. The real bug is that
windows 8 OS is not being detected (or reported) because GRuB will
detect it after ubuntu install. This is simple bug that is non bug ..
just not being echoed to the screen so somehwere in the code
Testing in UEFI mode:
Ventrical and I think that the real bug is that windows 8 OS is not
being detected (or reported) because GRuB will detect it after ubuntu
install. Maybe it is just not being echoed to the screen so somewhere in
the code there needs to be port to screen.
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OK, no one else tested the proposed update, so I'm going to mark this as
verification-done.
Comment #122 details the tests I have done.
The tests are not extensive, but they will have to suffice: according to the
release schedule, 14.04.2 will be released in February 5th (in 1 month), and
this
Hi Bruno,
Please have a look at the testing notes by ventrical at the Ubuntu
Forums
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2259055
and ask questions, if want him to explain some part of the results.
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I will be testing Intel machine in UEFI mode using xubuntu 15.04 daily-
current. (hard install)
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Ok... ventrical on the job now :)
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This is a non bug. Installing ubuntu trusty/unity will work in hard
UEFI mode on a previously installed windows8 machine. The problem is
understanding how gparted works and that it needs confirmations for each
operation and that it is not very apparent in GUI. With windows 8
already fully
My Windows 8.1 (including recovery partition) got wiped just few moments ago.
Using the 'reinstall' option to replace 12.04 by 14.04.01.
For the love of god, put some warning to the Ubuntu installation guide.
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I've made a few tests with the ubiquity installer in trusty-proposed in
Virtualbox (EFI mode not enabled).
* First I installed Windows 8 and left around 30 GB free.
* Then I installed Ubuntu to the free space using the automatic partitioning.
All good! Windows was still there.
* Then I
** Description changed:
- [Impact] Serious data loss due to misleading UI in a variety of cases where
the installer fails to accurately assess or describe the current partitioning
layout. This set of proposed changes fix the problem both narrowly (by fixing
a specific detection failure) and
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:55:08PM -, Bagus Tris wrote:
Today this bug affects me, Trusty 14.04.01 on MBP 9,2 mid 2012
This is to be expected, as I didn't fix this until after 14.04.1.
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(Linux ubuntu 3.13.0-32-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 03:51:08 UTC 2014
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linu
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Hello Steve, or anyone else affected,
Accepted ubiquity into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/2.18.8.3 in
a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See
** Branch linked: lp:~ubuntu-installer/ubiquity/trusty-proposed
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Milestone: ubuntu-14.04 = ubuntu-14.04.2
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layout. This set of proposed changes fix the problem both narrowly (by fixing
a specific detection failure) and
Hope this fix gets released soon because it just happened to me when I
installed 14.10.
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 05:58:31PM -, koen.h wrote:
Hope this fix gets released soon because it just happened to me when I
installed 14.10.
My fixes were released in 14.10. Please file a new bug carefully
detailing your previous setup and the exact nature of the problems you
encountered,
Don't forget to backport the fix to Trusty before the next point
release.
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This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.20.0
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* Exclude free space from counts of deleted partitions.
* There are far too many situations where we fail to accurately detect all
the operating systems installed on the disk, and
A big thank you to everybody who contributed to defining and squashing
this bug :-)
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Hey @Colin, thanks a ton for looking into this amid all the other billion
things you juggle in ubuntu :)
I have an exam coming up so I will be busy till Oct 17, 1800 UTC, but I'll
standby from then on to do any last minute testing/ grunt work you need done
for this.
Cheerio
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My profound apologies for our poor and slow response to this bug. It's
clear that we need to do much better. I think my colleagues who've
looked at this so far have focused on the detail of individual failures,
which is an understandable response, but this bug needs us to step a bit
further back
@Colin Will your changes fix the problems with multiple drives?
calculate_operating_systems returns a list of operating systems without
location (drive or partition), then calculate_autopartitioning_options
uses that list to decide how to proceed *as if all of the detected
operating systems were
Regarding the 2 drive (perhaps I should say - more than one drive) issue
the Install alongside option has an existing problem in that regard -
see bug #1262824. The one good thing about that particular scenario is
that if the wrong drive is selected you do still have the option of
selecting the
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 03:48:30PM -, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
@Colin Will your changes fix the problems with multiple drives?
I'll certainly check what happens with multiple drives and try to make
sure it's reasonable. (Needless to say, the tests are somewhat
time-consuming.) Adding a
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:05:15PM -, Erick Brunzell wrote:
Regarding the 2 drive (perhaps I should say - more than one drive) issue
the Install alongside option has an existing problem in that regard -
see bug #1262824.
That's a long-standing issue, and not one we need to track down at
@Erick, about the '+' and '-' buttons, you're talking about the advanced
(manual) partitioning step in the installer, right?
I'm almost sure that clicking '-' doesn't delete the partition right away, it
only marks it for deletion. The deletion only occurs after clicking the
Install button.
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Seeing the fact that this bug has been reported in a 13.10 version (1
year old). Is it not possible to add a warning in the installation
screen? When using Windows 8.1 always use the manual setting.
Because Windows 8.x is the default Windows on new laptops and there is
no clear documentation that
@ Bruno, yes I'm talking about the advanced partitioning buttons. It
turns out that you are correct. The installer only appears to have
deleted the partition (see complied screenshot) but if you click on Quit
the partition still exists, so it is possible to quit if you mistakenly
think the -
+1 for what @Bruno said. The before after is definitely a good idea. Will
it be very hard to put in considering it was once a part of the installer?
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Bruno Nova 1265...@bugs.launchpad.net
wrote:
In my humble opinion, besides fixing the OS detection and ambiguous
Based on the last two comments I'll mention this here even though it
probably deserves a new bug report, or multiple bug reports.
Another way in which a new user may mistakenly delete a partition is the
design choice of replacing the Add Remove buttons with + - in the
advanced partitioning
In my humble opinion, besides fixing the OS detection and ambiguous
labels, a final confirmation step should be added after the
simple/advanced partitioning step (like others have suggested).
That step should detail the partitioning changes and warn the user that
clicking Install Now will write
omg i am just now upgrading my dual-boot laptop on my workplace while reading
this.
i am an experienced linux user since 15 years, using lfs and gentoo as sole OS
for most of them, switching to debian and now ubuntu.
I have seen many of these super-bugs in these years, explainable only by 1.
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Stéphane, please have another look at this in utopic. It seems there
are still some cases where ubiquity is wiping out the UEFI partition
without warning.
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Stéphane is unlikely to get to this before release. Colin, can you have
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OK. It looks like the the final beta for utopic is out. On a scale of
1-10 of bugs that will harm ubuntu in the long run this one is a 10.
People will live with buggy, ugly and feature incomplete, but OMG!!
Ubuntu ate my hard drive! is something that will very very strongly
disuade new users from
I'm very sad that I met with this issue which swipes out all the data.
I recommended it to my colleague but Ubuntu tricked me by the Reinstall
Ubuntu. It finally removed all my colleague's data. We thought it
won't touch other OS. And it shouldn't. Why re-installing Ubuntu touches
other OS?
I
@chris Yeah, this bug wont be fixed till either your patch or the mint
one is applied. Preferably both.
@stephane: I think the patch is related to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1259701 , not this one
:D
btw what do you mean offered to resize and install ? could you
The bug is NOT fixed in ubiquity 2.19.8
Just tried the latest utopic iso. it has version 2.19.8 of ubiquity. The
menu still says Erase ubuntu 14.04 and reinstall instead of Erase
entire hard drive
To reiterate the problem:
The default option is LABELED Erase ubuntu 14.04 and reinstall
While the
@staticd That is what I was saying in comment #93, and I already posted
a patch. As far as I can see, there are several scenarios where the disk
will be wiped, see https://launchpadlibrarian.net/183531176/ubiquity-
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@Stephane - do you plan to merge ubiquity-better-desc.patch or have any
comments regarding it? There are setups where os-prober will fail to
find a partition with an operating system, and go ahead wiping all the
partitions on the drive without telling the user. It is bad idea to wipe
the whole
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[ Colin Watson ]
* Avoid closing /dev/urandom persistent FD on oem-config startup (thanks,
Jamin W. Collins; LP: #1362920).
[ Chris Bainbridge ]
* Fix Windows UEFI detection.
Stephane, thank you for testing. Windows appears as Windows Boot
Manager because that is the text returned by os-prober, presumably
because it literally looks for the Windows boot loader on a partition. I
suggest filing a bug with that project if you think it should be
changed.
machrider, I agree
I just experienced a variation of this issue - my data was not wiped but
my partitions were resized and rearranged or merged, I can't say what
because I can't make sense of it.
In the installer, I was presented with the 'alongside' or 'replace'
options, and after choosing 'alongside' there was no
Just did a quick test here in a UEFI VM, installed win8.1 on the whole
disk, rebooted with an Ubuntu live media, starting the installer only
offered me to wipe the system clean as it didn't detect anything.
Applied the patch and re-started ubiquity, it now detects an operating
system, though
Glad to see it's doing a better job detecting other OSes. I'd hesitate
to call this bug resolved until the installer does a better job
messaging to the user what it is about to do. For example, if it says it
is going to replace one OS, it should also make it clear that this is
actually an entire
Just want to post a short tutorial on how to recover files (took me the
entire US Labor Day weekend to figure it out). If you think this may
useful to other people (such as those in ubuntuforums, askubuntu, and
ubuntu launchpad Answers section), please share this with them.
The following is
Fixed in Linux Mint: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1325786
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This patch should fix Ubiquity not detecting Windows EFI installs.
Ubiquity uses os-prober to detect installed operating systems. os-prober
iterates through each disk and each partition, calling a series of
scripts to attempt to identify a given partition, and printing results
to stdout in the
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I suspect that auto-partitioning with multiple disks has always been a
problem, but wasn't so serious previously, since the user would just be
warned about having more operating systems on the disk than they really
had. It became more dangerous when combined with Windows not being
detected. A two
Another victim of the bug here. I couldn't find this bug report earlier,
so I filed my own (Bug #1358543). It seems any option other than
alongside and custom will wipe the hard drive without clear
indication to the user. As mentioned in previous posts, sites such as
ubuntuforums and askubuntu
Get your shit together Canonical!
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Might affect beta1 of elementary OS, marking affected with status New.
** Also affects: ubiquity
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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There are several options in ubiquity that will wipe the whole disk but
this is not mentioned in the option description. The patch I'm
attaching changes the descriptions for the *_format actions to better
reflect that those options wipe the whole disk, including other
partitions and operating
This is a very good idea, Chris,
I would like to add that not only the work warning should be red, but
the background or a surrounding frame should be red as a final warning.
See the picture in this link (from mkusb)
typo: work -- word
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would it be difficult to read out someones existing fstab, determine
where / is (and possible other mount points like /home) and use that
info to reinstall as expected and not touch anything else?
i'm no dev, but that sounds doable, right?
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Just marked as affected by this bug, though I never wanted to reproduce it in
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Sorry for another e-mail notification annoyance.
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I had a Ubuntu 13.10 (some friends with 13.04), on a Linux-only PC (no
Windows crap), just two partitions (one root, another swap). Then I
downloaded Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop ISO, I selected Upgrade Ubuntu
13.10 BOOM!!! It completely deleted ALL my Virtual Machines under
/var/lib/libvirt/images
This bug has been reported in OMG! Ubuntu!:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/08/ubuntu-installer-bug-wipes-partitions
(and also other sites)
At least add this bug to the known issues in the release notes, and
make the link to it in the download page more prominent.
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One more bites the dust:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2241082
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Another one bites the dust:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2239279
Shouldn't this at least be mentioned in the release notes?
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I'd actually been lazy the past few days but:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2239038
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2239115
That makes three that I'm aware of in just 24 hours :^(
I'd surely think it deserves a mention in the release notes at the top
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