To the group that produced this extremely short-sighted install procedure - here is one thing that you can do to save your honor.
The procedure to get out of that described situation is so extremely annoying waste of time for non-guru users that I think it is appropriate to demand some remedy from the producer - you are faced here with a situation where people can not access their data because of your decision to use always the same name for a lvm volume group - I believe that is enough motivation to put some true effort into this issue to save the name "Ubuntu". Similar to a car producing company that has to recall lots of cars because of some production error Ubuntu should deliver some kind of repair script that comes with the installer. Please add an option to the installer to make old Ubuntu installs that were created with this installer accessible by changing the volume group name and making appropriate changes to /etc/fstab and grub files - and please TEST that with real people and real installations before! It seems like nobody @Ubuntu puts some effort into testing these kind of real life scenarios. This lvm mis-configuration is such an obvious footgun that would have been easy to avoid if just one person tried to add an old system hard drive to a newly installed system - a very expected real life situation - many people do migrate to new systems with a new hard disk and then copying data from the old hard disk to the new one is a totally expected thing to happen. Please put more real life testing into your production workflows. BTW there also should exist some kind of "migration assistant" that would copy all the settings from an old $HOME - its kind of annoying that these stupid things still have to be done manually, despite the fact that it would be very easy for you to automate this. You are missing one low hanging fruit to user happiness here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1759962 Title: Can not mount old hd after new installation because of multiple VGs found with the same name skipping xubuntu-vg To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-installer/+bug/1759962/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
