Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Version: daily-20070308 In the "Partition disks" step, using the "Manual" partitioning method, I cannot configure encrypted volumes.
I create a partition, for use as a physical volume for encryption. When I try to "Configure encrypted volumes", I get the error screen "Unsafe swap space detected" and cannot proceed. The error screen suggests running swapoff. I press Alt-F2 RET and type "swapoff -a" to the shell there; it does not help. (But it should, yes? Is this another bug?) I have a second disk with an independent installation of Debian on it. >From looking at /proc/swaps, it appears that the installer saw a swap partition there and is using it. I didn't ask it to. After I create the partition and select "Configure encrypted volumes", the partitioner gives me a screen saying, "Before encrypted volumes can be configured, the current partitioning scheme has to be written to disk.... The following partitions are going to be formatted:" And the offered partition is the swap on the other disk! This seems wrong, as I haven't touched the other disk. It is when I say "Yes" to this step that the swap space gets added, making the next step fail. What does work is "swapoff /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5". This seems considerably harder to figure out than "swapoff -a". It also works to, in the partitioner, edit the swap partition on the other disk and set its "Use as" field to "do not use". It took me a while to figure this out, and I feel this step should not be necessary. If I select "Guided partitioning" and ask for "Guided - encrypted LVM", it works fine. Somehow this method gets rid of the unwanted swap device. < Stephen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
