Installing from scratch Ubuntu 18.10, with a customised full disk encryption partitioning scheme. After setting up separate encrypted volumes with new filesystems for these mountpoints: / /boot /home swap I started ubiquity and forgot -b so it completed fast but crashed at end (it is a known bug: on a FDE setup -b is needed, grub must be installed after configuring GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y in /etc/default/grub). So, I restarted with the switch ubiquity -b and met this "bug". Which isn't, at least in one, my, case. It's a "feature": finding an existing installation, ubiquity uses dpkg-repack to save the customisations and transport them to the new installation; this takes very long time, enough to find and read the preceding 45 posts... In case of a new installation, kill ubiquity and restart recreating empty filesystems is quicker than waiting the repacking of the whole release.
OTOH, there seems to be also real bug described here: when /var is a mountpoint. Rethinking, there are 2 bugs. One is in front of the keyboard. Those who want to keep the existing customised configuration should not reinstall, but should should perform a do-release-upgrade Catering for those who reinstall but want to keep previous settings is a bug, I say. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/875343 Title: Stuck at "Saving installed packages..." when using a custom /var To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/875343/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
