Please excuse, that I did not got to a workaround before reporting this
bug.
It is indeed possible to have a custom partition layout with the
ubiquity installer on the KDE Live CD, when the layout is created
manually. If the deisred root ("/") filesystem is btrfs it needs to be
completely fresh or created by the installer.
The reason for the issue seems to be that I had a custom subvolume
("sv_root") and that I set that subvolume as the default subvolume to
mount. Whereas the installer wants to use a subvolume named "@" as the
system's root. There seems to be no way to deviate from this during
installation.
I perfectly understand that names are a question of taste. Yet there is
no reason to not support custom subvolume names.
To get a working system:
* Do not select updates/extras
* Open manually created LVM/dm-crypt volumes
* Select your volumes - choose to format your /boot-device and the device
containing /
* Install
* The installer crashes when it needs to install the bootloader (at least it
looks that way)
* Quit the installer
* Mount the target into /target with dev, dev/pts, proc, sys, boot; this
needs to match the planned layout, which will be put in fstab and crypttab,
*EXACTLY*
* Add /etc/crypttab to reflect the crypted devices correctly
* Edit /etc/fstab to reflect the system correctly
* Create /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/cryptroot file; this is the step I
missed at first
* update-initramfs -u -k all
* update-grub
* Unmount everything
* reboot
Thank you for taking the time to read this report. Please forgive my
grammar, since I am not a native speaker.
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Ubiquity installer crashes with manual partition layout - looks like a
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