tags 597621 moreinfo thanks > I did the installation in "expert mode". Unfortunately I had two problems > concerning the setup of LUKS encrypted partitions and filesystems. The first > and critical one was that the installer couldn't setup more than one encrypted > partition. Whenever I tried to specify two or more encrypted partitions the > installer failed after formatting them, during the mounting phase. It seemed > that the installer arbitrarily corrupted the filesystems right after > creating/formatting them. I was trying to create four encrypted partitions: > /dev/sdb4 (ext4) as /home (see disks layout above), /dev/sdb2 as swap, > /dev/sda3 (ext4) as /mnt and /dev/sda2 as second swap. Unfortunately I had to > create only one (sdb4) and to leave the remaining three to be done after the > system installation. Before this bug report is reassigned to partman-crypto, could you test the "daily builds" of D-I? Go to http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer and take care to pick one of the daily builds, preferrably the netboot image (*not* netinst!). > Suggestion: > > I would like to suggest that in "expert mode" the user should be able to > choose to continue the installation process even if a previous phase has > failed. When I experienced the major issue reported above, I was able to > switch to a terminal and create/format/mount the encrypted partitions > manually. But unfortunately the installation process didn't let me continue to > the next stage because the previous stage had failed. All internal logic of D-I is based on such dependencies. So I very much doubt this happens before a major rewrite of many parts. I don't really see the benefit anyway (at least in real installs....there may be some use cases in D-I development itself but other hacks such as putting "exit 0" at the top of the failing component postinst, are often enough....
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