Public bug reported: Binary package hint: migration-assistant
Under hardy beta's live-cd, recently migration assistant stopped offering to migrate accounts from a partition containing a debian distribution. The live cd is from 4/14/08. I investigated this and it appears to me it is because of a change on 3/30/08 to the configuration of kernel drivers. On my system, and others like it, the ide driver was changed to a PATA version which renamed my ide partitions from /dev/hd.. to /dev/sd... The change is linux (2.6.24-13.23) hardy and it relates to bug181561. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/restricted- manager/+bug/181561/comments/68 The change disrupts the parsing of the debian system's /etc/fstab file, which lists the disks by the old names. Unlike by gutsy systems, the debian system does not mount /home by label or uuid. I don't know how many systems are affected by the driver change. If there is a sizable number, perhaps some consideration should be given to an entry in the release notes, etc. if the change might trigger other problems. Otherwise there's probably not much to be done to fix this. migration- assistant can't know on its own with certainty where a system's /home directory can be found without information relative to its understanding of what partition is what. I did find the following circumvention worked for me: Before starting the installation open a terminal window with Applications->Accessories->Terminal then enter the following command: sudo ln -s /dev/sdb6 /dev/hdb6 Then start the installation Others may find this useful. Substitute the new and old device names for the partition you would like to migrate. The command makes the old device name known to migration-assistant. File /usr/share/migration-assistant/ma-script-utils on gutsy and hardy makes note of this kind of situation as a potential problem. When running ubiquity and migration assistant under an installed hardy assistant it may be possible to circumvent this problem by forcing the old ide driver to run at boot time, causing the software to run under a system using the old device names. ** Affects: migration-assistant (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- migration assistant doesn't offer to migrate users from my debian system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217925 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
