Hi, > On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 03:03:20PM -0500, Stephen Gildea wrote: > > 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. > >
I had the same issue today, while trying to install testing. But my case is slightly more confusing since I did *not* have any swap partition shown in /proc/swaps (I restarted the install from scratch and checked in the alt+F2 console before and after launching the partition manager). As mentionned in bug #396138 (merged with this one), the only way has been to set my swap partition to "Use as: Do not use" in the partitioner. Automatic partitionning yielded the same result, and my disk was a new, unpartitionned SSD. I do not understand what is going on. I already used the automatic (and even manual) partman-crypt in the past and never faced such an issue. > > 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. > > I don't think we can skip this step if we still want to > automatically configure existing swap partitions on the system, > but I agree that it should be easier to handle. I'm afraid I do not understand: I have installed several Debian systems in the past featuring an encrypted swap partition. The fact that it (sometimes) does not work looks like a random bug, not an absolute impossibility. > If the above should turn out to be impossible or too much work, > I'll try to improve the error template to mention that one can set > the "Use as" field rather than switch to a different VT and use > swapoff to deconfigure it manually. (This is post-etch as well) Then again, swapoff did not solve the issue in my case. Somehow, the installer seems to think that, because I want to configure a swap partition, a swap partition is already setup and might leak my passphrase (which is not the case, and anyway this is supposed to be an encrypted swap so WTF?). Best regards, -- Gabriel Kerneis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
