Nearing 2nd LTS release after the bug was reported and still no solution
or even acknowledgement of how serious the problem is.
To make it worse, in main desktop image they completely removed
encryption option from manual disk partitioning screen.
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This problem's still there on 22.04. I simplified my notes on how to
workaround it, HTH:
**Ubuntu 22.04 and Newer: Extra Steps for Re-Using Existing LUKS Encrypted
Partition**
This has to be done using the Kubuntu or Ubuntu desktop live CD. Using the
Ubuntu Server Live CD (with text-based instal
Has anyone come up with a workaround for the "ValueError: encryption key
or keyfile must be specified" bug? I'm trying to install Ubuntu Server
20.04.3 here, too, after manually creating a slightly tweaked LUKS
device, and the installer keeps failing. Perhaps an older point-release
of 20.04 still w
Do you have to use the server installer to use the workaround or can the
desktop installer do the same?
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Using the installer for 20.04.3 using the workaround and the installer
is failing with raise ValueError("encryption key or keyfile must be
specified") in the log as well.
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I am trying to install ubuntu 20.04 on top of an old LUKS partition with
ubuntu 18.04. I have a single encrypted partition so I set it as mount
point "/". But the installation then fails saying that the bootloader
installation failed. For bootloader I selected the disk where the LUKS
partition is.
> Then, either do this at the end after the installer has run, or boot
into a live CD environment (e.g. Kubuntu) and do:
The many steps given there are not really necessary. If you installed
without downloading updates the following steps should be easier:
1. The first boot after the installation
I have used the "cryptsetup luksOpen` work-around successfully already
years ago.
However, when installing 20.04 with the server installer it does no longer work.
Installation aborts; in the log I found the cause to be
raise ValueError("encryption key or keyfile must be specified")
from
http
> I tried the xubuntu-20.04.2.0
Sorry, that should have been
xubuntu-20.04.2.0 installer
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Yeah it's a pretty ridiculous bug to have in an LTS release. Disk
encryption is a must these days, and other OSes like Windows support it
by default
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I confirm. That's a quite horrible experience. The previous text-based
installer worked perfectly to unlock the disc and map the partitions. It
was never supported in the GUI installer and I killed my disk once
because of that.
This is a major downturn as encryption is a best-practice for quite a
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
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Status: New => Confirmed
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