Bug#534248: debian-installer: steps to reproduce #534248
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
the steps that create the problem while running the installer (yesterday's
testing amd64) are:
(I have a completely empty disk (free space))
select Manual partitioning
create on the disk's free space, the first primary partition (for installing vista)
create primary for /boot
create primary and select 'use as encryption volume'
write changes to disk
select encrypted volume
use as phycical volume for lvm
configure Logical Volume Manager appears ->select it
create volume group
create logical volume -> for the root filesystem
create logical volume -> for swap
finish partitioning and write changes to disk->
I see the summary:
"The partition tables of the following devices are changed:
LVM VG vg1, LV rootFS
LVM VG vg1, LV swap
The following partitions are going to be formatted:
LVM VG vg1, LV rootFS as ext3
LVM VG vg1, LV swap as swap
"
-> failed to create a file system
The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of LVM VG vg1, LV rootFS
failed
As I can see from a console, /dev/mapper now contains:
vg1-rootFS
vg1-rootFSp1
vg1-swap
vg1-swapp1
It looks like it tries to partition the logical volumes. Is this going to be
a new feature? Why?
Anyway, a more easy way to also create a problem is this:
You just select from the menu: "guided - set up encrypted LVM"
it did its things and I got the message: Too many primary partitions on
selected disks and it returned me to the partitioning menu where I see just two
partitions on physical disk:
#1 primary 255MB ext2 /boot
#2 prmary 319GB crypto (sda2_crypt)
and Encrypted volume (sda2_crypt) - 147.0 MB Linux device-mapper
#1 147 MB f ext3
<interests noone!>
My workaround was: Downloaded the lenny first cd, installed without problems
the encrypted lvm, and then upgraded to testing!
</interests noone!>
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK GUYS :-)
-- 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.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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