Re: bug in installer? (was Re: debian testing installer & encrypted LVM question)

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In <4a50a818.8060...@ccf.auth.gr>, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
>Anyway, does it make
>any sense to partition a logical volume?

Not usually.  Might be useful in some odd corner case
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Re: bug in installer? (was Re: debian testing installer & encrypted LVM question)

[Γιώργος Πάλλας]

Jochen Schulz wrote:

Giorgos Pallas:
  

-> failed to create a file system
The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of LVM VG vg1, LV rootFS
failed


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Is this supposed to happen? Did I do something wrong?



I had the same issue when using the AMD64 squeeze installer a few days
ago. I think it is a bug, probably the same as reported in #534248.

J.
  


I had a mistake on the original email: It was the testing (squeeze) 
installer of AMD64, not the Lenny. It looks it is the bug you say - I 
sent some extra info to reproduce it.


The non-technical workaround: Burn a lenny installer, set up the 
encrypted lvm, install just the base system, and the upgrade to testing.


By the way, I *think* the problem was introduced by a new feature that 
they are trying to introduce: The partitioning of the logical volumes. 
After the installer crashed, I could see in /dev/mapper the logical 
volume foo of the volume group bar I had created, as well as a partition 
like thing:

/dev/mapper:
bar-foo
bar-foop1

Maybe I am wrong as to the development's intention. Anyway, does it make 
any sense to partition a logical volume?


G.


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Re: bug in installer? (was Re: debian testing installer & encrypted LVM question)

[Jochen Schulz]

Giorgos Pallas:
> 
> -> failed to create a file system
> The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of LVM VG vg1, LV rootFS
> failed
-- snip
> Is this supposed to happen? Did I do something wrong?

I had the same issue when using the AMD64 squeeze installer a few days
ago. I think it is a bug, probably the same as reported in #534248.

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Re: bug in installer? (was Re: debian testing installer & encrypted LVM question)

[Giorgos Pallas]

Giorgos Pallas wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> To me it looks like a bug, but I'd like to show it to the list before
> filing it as a bug.
>
> My goal is to install debian testing using encrypted LVM, but not using
> the entire disk: I want to keep a free partition for installing vista
> (for educational purposes...).
>
> So, the steps that create a problem while running the installer are:
>
> select Manual partitioning
> create on the disks free space, the first primary (for installing vista)
> [this step may be irrelevant]
> create primary for /boot
> create primary and select 'use as encryption volume'
> write changes to disk
> select encrypted volume
> use as phycical volume for lvm
> configure Logical Volume Manager appears ->select it
> create volume group
> create logical volume -> for the root filesystem
> create logical volume -> for  swap
> finish partitioning and write changes to disk->
>
> I see the summary:
> "The partition tables of the following devices are changed:
> LVM VG vg1, LV rootFS
> LVM VG vg1, LV swap
>
> The following partitions are going to be formatted:
> LVM VG vg1, LV rootFS as ext3
> LVM VG vg1, LV swap as swap
> "
>
> -> failed to create a file system
> The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of LVM VG vg1, LV rootFS
> failed
>
> As I can see, /dev/mapper now contains:
> vg1-rootFS
> vg1-rootFSp1
> vg1-swap
> vg1-swapp1
>
> Is this supposed to happen? Did I do something wrong?
>
> Giorgos
>
>   


and something more, important I guess: I was installing using the latest
testing image for amd64...
I will now try with the lenny installer for amd64...

G.


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bug in installer? (was Re: debian testing installer & encrypted LVM question)

[Giorgos Pallas]

Hi all!

To me it looks like a bug, but I'd like to show it to the list before
filing it as a bug.

My goal is to install debian testing using encrypted LVM, but not using
the entire disk: I want to keep a free partition for installing vista
(for educational purposes...).

So, the steps that create a problem while running the installer are:

select Manual partitioning
create on the disks free space, the first primary (for installing vista)
[this step may be irrelevant]
create primary for /boot
create primary and select 'use as encryption volume'
write changes to disk
select encrypted volume
use as phycical volume for lvm
configure Logical Volume Manager appears ->select it
create volume group
create logical volume -> for the root filesystem
create logical volume -> for  swap
finish partitioning and write changes to disk->

I see the summary:
"The partition tables of the following devices are changed:
LVM VG vg1, LV rootFS
LVM VG vg1, LV swap

The following partitions are going to be formatted:
LVM VG vg1, LV rootFS as ext3
LVM VG vg1, LV swap as swap
"

-> failed to create a file system
The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of LVM VG vg1, LV rootFS
failed

As I can see, /dev/mapper now contains:
vg1-rootFS
vg1-rootFSp1
vg1-swap
vg1-swapp1

Is this supposed to happen? Did I do something wrong?

Giorgos



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