Public bug reported:
I downloaded the iso and put it on CVC awhile back. I was running 14.04
just fine, but did an update today, and saw messages in the terminal
window that Gtk2 was not installed. I could not find a way to install
Gtk2 or Gtk3 separately.
So I decide to just delete the system files using a LiveCD by going into
Try, mounting the target partition, using "sudo -1", and "rm -r
/media/ubuntu/sda2/[!h]* "to wipe everything other than /home and my
user account.
Then when I chose to install Ubuntu, I chose "Something Else", targeted
sda2 for root (but no format)/ While it was installing, I brought up
Firefox and was looking at an article on doing an install from an iso
image on the hard drive. Reason? Because I had lable the DVD "Ubuntu
15.10", but the installer told me I was actually installing 14.10/ I'd
get this install done, I was going to move up, but I had no more DVDs on
hand to burn to.
And the install crashed. So that's it.
I was going to have to clean the drive first, because in a previous
effort, the LiveCD installer tried to restore packages that had been
added after the install. Problem was, the previous version was 32-bit,
and the new install was 64-bit, so the install got messed up, and I had
to do it all over. That's when I came up with using "rm -r .../[!h]*"
as a ways around that. The alternative is to use "cp -rfp ... /home
[target drive]", tnen copy it all back later.
LiveCD should include a choice of uprgrading {(or replacing} an existing
install, and make the appropriate choices, like:
(1) Choice of partition to install to
(2) Whether to keep existing accounts or not
(3) What packegest need to be added to bring it back to where the old install
had been, and do these as well
(4) The option to simply upgrade the existing install, or start fresh, but use
the same partitions, but only reformat the one(s) that were part of the earlier
install configuration.
(5) Or the choice to add this install to existing installs by first
subdividing the hard drive, which can have manual resizing elections.
I mean, after all, we are in the age of terabyte drives, and a whole
terabyte for a single install is overkill. You could support 3, 4, even
five installs in that much space, and have plenty of drive room left
over.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-25.33-generic 3.16.7
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-25-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu10
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.346
Date: Tue Sep 8 14:32:02 2015
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper
initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha i386 (20141213)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 third-party-packages ubiquity-2.21.1 ubuntu vivid
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Ubuntu 14.10(?) Install Just Crashed
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