Bug#922230: partman-lvm: Cannot delete volumes created by the guided partitioning - partman-lvm targets wrong block device
On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 14:53:49 +0000 Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 01:06:45PM +0000, João Pirralha wrote:
> >Package: partman-lvm
> >Severity: important
> >
> >Dear Maintainer,
> >
> >Using buster DI alpha 5 (firmware-buster-DI-alpha5-amd64-DVD-1.iso)
I couldn't
> >delete any volume created by the guided partitioning (LVM +
encryption) (I was
> >trying to remove the swap volume to have a single root volume).
Looking at
> >virtual console 4, partman-lvm seems to try to open /dev/sdb instead of
> >/dev/nvme0n1.
> >Buster DI alpha 4 (firmware-buster-DI-alpha4-amd64-netinst.iso)
worked as
> >expected.
> >Not sure if this bug belongs to this package.
>
> It does, yes.
>
> Maybe you're seeing another instance of what was reported as #922100,
> caused by the broken bugfix for #911036. I'm about to revert that
> change.
>
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> Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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>
Yes, maybe this is a duplicate of #922100. Regarding what I reported on
VT4, that's just the error message I saw when I tried to delete a volume
(something along the lines of "cannot open /dev/sdb").
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