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[Ara Pulido <ara@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: Re: [Xorg-prop-drivers-testers] Week 1 image eated my home :(
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:15:18 +0100
From: Ara Pulido <ara@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Paolo Sammicheli <xdatap1@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hello Paolo,

On 02/15/2010 01:31 PM, Paolo Sammicheli 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.

Wow! That's a shame!

> 
> 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.

Indeed this seems a very bad bug to hit. I will add it to my TODO list,
and will test this scenario during Alpha-3 testing.

Thanks!
Ara.