wubi uninstaller may erase user data by mistake
Bug #236741 reported by
billbear
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wubi |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Agostino Russo | ||
| Ubuntu |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
There is a problem in hardy wubi uninstaller that may cause data loss.
Wubi uninstaller checks the partitions and finds the first partition that contains a "ubuntu" folder, then erases that folder.
This is bad when someone has other folders with the same name "ubuntu" under other drive letters.
A user posted at the chinese ubuntu forum that he had a "ubuntu" folder under drive G: which contains his documents, and the wubi installation was at J:\ubuntu. When he uninstalled wubi, the ubuntu folder at drive G: was removed and J:\ubuntu was left untouched. (Unfortunately G: comes first)
The post can be found here: http://
I confirmed this bug in a virtual machine and i consider it a serious bug.
| Changed in wubi: | |
| assignee: | nobody → ago |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| ubuntusky (ubuntuskyx) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in wubi: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
Revision history for this message
| Agostino Russo (ago) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in wubi: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Revision history for this message
| emzilong (zilongluyao) wrote | #3 |
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