Ubuntu
partman-crypto package

  1. Bug #420080
  2. Comment #24

Comment 24 for bug 420080

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: [Bug 420080] Re: Configure encrypted volumes destroys existing data

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 02:03:27PM -0000, Jochen Gruse wrote:
> Tried Kubuntu Oneiric alternate amd64 daily, Timestamp "15-Sep-2011
> 05:23". Partitioner works great, Oneiric installs, reboots and runs,
> /etc/fstab and /etc/crypttab are correct.

Fantastic, thanks!

> Two points I'd like to address:
> * /etc/fstab uses "/dev/mapper/system-root2" instead of UUID=... This
> works OK, but is it what you expect it to be?

Yes, that's intentional. That's a stable name, and we only use UUIDs
when we don't have stable names.

> * GRUB installs OK, but reports an error after update-grub run.
> Choosing "Continue without installing a bootloader" finishes the
> installation and Kubunto reboots successfully into Oneiric, i.e. GRUB
> works. It's really the new installation of grub as it shows the menu
> to choose between 11.04 and 11.10.

That indeed sounds like a bug. Please file it separately, attaching
/var/log/installer/syslog and /var/log/installer/partman.