UPDATE: Data loss after update?

March 21st, 2010 — roaksoax

Hi all,

An hour ago I upgraded my Lucid desktop to the latest updates available and after the upgrade, I noticed that some Folders I had in the ‘Desktop’ where missing. I tried to see if they were hidden or if it was just a weird bug that was not actually showing the files but it wasn’t… so yeah I guess that something caused the data loss after the upgrade!! so BE CAREFULL!

UPDATE: I’ve filed a bug LP: #543822. However, this bug is not reproducible. The data loss just happened after an upgrade. I haven’t seen this behavior again after any other upgrades i’ve been making. So i guess there’s nothing to be alarmed.

Posted in Planet, Ubuntu. . 11 Comments »

11 Responses to “UPDATE: Data loss after update?”

  1. Andres Rodriguez: Data loss after update? | TuxWire Says:
    March 21st, 2010 at 4:20 AM

    [...] See the original post here: Andres Rodriguez: Data loss after update? [...]

  2. walter Says:
    March 21st, 2010 at 4:59 AM

    What version of ubuntu are you using?

  3. roaksoax Says:
    March 21st, 2010 at 5:12 AM

    Lucid

  4. alex Says:
    March 21st, 2010 at 6:25 AM

    It is important to file a bug. Did you? Data loss is one of the most serious if not the serious bugs.

  5. Daniel Holbach Says:
    March 21st, 2010 at 6:27 AM

    Are any icons shown on your Desktop at all? Is nautilus running at all? Since nautilus 1:2.29.92.1-0ubuntu3 works again.

  6. optimist Says:
    March 21st, 2010 at 7:54 AM

    nothing bad on my end

    is that a joke

  7. Rick Spencer Says:
    March 21st, 2010 at 4:12 PM

    Hi. So this is pretty much what the Ubuntu team would consider show stopping critical bug. So thanks for testing Lucid, but sorry that you had this experience.

    I you haven’t done so already, could I ask you to log a bug in launchpad so the Ubuntu devs can figure out what happened and fix the issue?

    $ubuntu-bug update-manager

    would probably be a good place to start.

    TIA

    Cheers, Rick

  8. martin Says:
    March 21st, 2010 at 8:47 PM

    What caused it? What is the LP bug number?

  9. andrew Says:
    March 21st, 2010 at 11:56 PM

    Are updates in ubuntu allowed to touch the users /home directory? I would find this very strange (and unacceptable). My guess is that it is file system related.

  10. Christian Says:
    March 22nd, 2010 at 4:24 PM

    I updated to Lucid recently and while all my files disappeared from the “Desktop”, the files were still there when I browsed to the Desktop folder using nautilus.

  11. Daniel Holbach Says:
    March 24th, 2010 at 5:41 AM

    I was referring to a similar bug that Christian mentioned. As I said: it was fixed in 1:2.29.92.1-0ubuntu3 and a local restart of nautilus.

    Andres: can you please comment?

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