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[Alberto Milone <alberto.milone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15 February 2010 13:31, Paolo Sammicheli <xdatap1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Guys, I'm quite disappointed at moment.
>
> As described in the instruction I made a new partition on my desktop resizing
> the old root partition, I told the installer to use it like root and to reuse
> the old home partition like home (I did it thousands times in the past).
>
> I checked 3 times that "format" box where applied just to the new partition
> and not to the home nor the old root.
>
> Then it proposed me to migrate data from old installation, I said no to all
> users it proposed me. At the end of installation an error window notified that
> it can't migrate data from old account (WTH, I said no migration) and after
> copying all files the installer crashed (and didn't install GRUB).
>
> That's all. Now my old home directory it's completly empty and I want to cry.
>
> Fortunatly I have backups but now I have to spend hours to restore my desktop.
> And thanks god I decided to test it on my desktop (used for fun) instead
> laptop (used for my job).
>
> Just to let you know that shit happens and backups are very good things.
>
> P.S.
> this looks like and ugly bug on migration step. Someone with a completly spare
> computer can try to reproduce it? Please don't ask me to reproduce it and
> destroy my system again.
>
> Ciao
> --
> Paolo Sammicheli
> EMail: xdatap1(at)ubuntu.com
> https://launchpad.net/~xdatap1
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Hi Paolo,

Isn't this mailing list about testing proprietary drivers?

Regards,

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Alberto Milone
Sustaining Engineer (system)
Foundations Team
Canonical OEM Services