Bug#529343: debian-installer: physical volume for encryption: doesnt care if already encrypted and kills data
Package: debian-installer
Version: testing Netinstall CD AMD64 2009-03
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss
When having to reinstall a system with an encrypted root-partition, the installer gives no means to
reuse a physical colume for encryption which has already been set up in a previous install.
The user isn't warned and the data contained in the encrypted volume will be killed without notice,
even if the same password is supplied.
I suggest to give the user the option of reusing the encrypted device or at least give a big fat warning
that his data will be killed, if he proceeds one step further.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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