Re: Can't boot following re-install to LVM on LUKS [was: can't login via gdm]

[Morgan Read <mstuff@read.org.nz>]

> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 03:46:51PM +0100, Morgan Read wrote:
> > On 11/08/2021 11:30 pm, David Christensen wrote:
> > > On 8/11/21 6:45 AM, Morgan Read wrote:
> > >> After having overcome a fairly fundamental bug with calamares as
> > >> described here:
> > >> https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1564#issuecomment-846321060
> > >> And, (unnecessarily as it turned out) re-installed my system, I find
> > >> I'm unable to boot. ...
> > ...
>
> Morgan,
>       
      Hi Andy, Thanks for coming back to me:-
> Possibly just don't use calamares. Use the standard Debian installer (d-i for
> short). Either the standard or expert installs offer you "ordinary" LVM or
> encrypted LVM with LUKS, made even more straightforward if you can choose
>       
      Actually, it was calamares that worked better than d-i - after
      failing with Debian's calamares live install I followed the
      instructions for d-i here:
https://www.blakehartshorn.com/installing-debian-on-existing-encrypted-lvm/
      Blake Hartshorn seems to do a pretty good job of describing the
      problem and solution.  However, it wasn't a solution for me
      because the install failed repeatedly over the course of a couple
      of days (I was using 10.10 cf. BH using 10.4) - it wasn't until
      after I'd invested in a new flash drive and continued with the
      same fails that I tried the PureOS live install, which worked. 
      You can read a full discussion of my woes here:
https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1564#issuecomment-898246354
      Essentially, d-i couldn't get passed either the base system dpkg
      install (most usually base-passwd) or the following software
      install.  The dpkg warnings were thrown on "parsing file
      '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 5 package 'dpkg' : missing
      description field" with errors on the stateoverride file.

I would have filed bug reports but then Debian went to 11 and I figured there'd be a new disk spun so it was all history anyway and I had a working machine with PureOS.

> Also: the standard size for swap is now 1G and for a dedicated /tmp 
> partition of 2G.
>       
      That's interesting - so nothing for hibernation on swap?  I gave
      8G to allow for hibernation, but would happily give it away if I
      could?

Many thanks.

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