Public bug reported: Lost /home and all other mounted disks after upgrade by gutsy After struggling with gutsy for 2 weeks now to get the [EMAIL PROTECTED] to install, and being giving crap advice about authenticating the CD, which nobody knew how to fix (I kept fiddling with the authentication until I fixed it myself). It finally finished, with a 'Restart' icon in the launch bar. I clicked the Restart icon to reboot - then tried to log in ... ***ALL ACCOUNTS***, except root, HAD LOST THEIR HOME DIRECTORY. After cursing long and without repetition, I got a root console (Alt-F1) logon and checked my hard drives. Out of my two hard drives, one with 4 partitions, the other 2, only one partition was working. It finally dawned on me what someone (at Ubuntu?) in his twisted logic had done... my two disks were no longer hda and hdc. Some one (at Ubuntu?) had replaced my two hard disk names with sda and sdc, thus rendering my /etc/fstab useless. I didn't ask for that, and I do not condone that action now. Try the same logic in a car repair shop: You upgrade your car's engine from a tired smoky one, to a new one from Mr Ubuntu. The mechanic says (after the job's done, of course!): "Oh, by the way, we did something to your car so that you, and anybody else, won't be able to drive it on the roads any more, and we won't tell you why we did it! See if you can find out what it was......"
Moderator: Please feel free to tone down or erase this posting so that nobody's feelings are hurt....but don't tell me why you did it... ....... Please include, if possible: The source package you found the bug in, for help see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . -- I don't know. 1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu. -- Ubuntu 7.10 - the Gutsy Gibbon 2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy packagename' or by checking in Synaptic. -- not applicable 3) What you expected to happen -- that users would be able to log on and do their work 4) What happened instead -- that nobody could log on This bug is not a security vulnerability -- but it's the sort of thing to turn the Mum and Dad users back to Microsoft..... ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Lost home and all other mounted disks after upgrade by gutsy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214607 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
