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Status: Confirmed => Triaged
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Ubuntu installer says: The creation of swap space in
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Status: Triaged => Confirmed
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Title:
Ubuntu installer says: The creation of swap space in
I see a new bug has been filed, bug #1552539. So are the two duplicates?
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Ubuntu installer says: The creation of swap space in partition
This is turning out to be a real show-stopper for Xenial!
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Ubuntu installer says: The creation of swap space in partition failed
To
Of course we could just recommend users use dd as suggested, and then
listen to the users weep when they find that they've invoked it against
the wrong device and learned why it earned the moniker data destroyer.
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Also clicking OK does nothing so you have no choice but to reboot the
live image.
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Ubuntu installer says: The creation of swap space in
Still affects 20160323.1 Ubuntu GNOME.
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Ubuntu installer says: The creation of swap space in partition failed
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Yes, partman-basicfilesystems is what actually does the format.
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Ubuntu installer says: The creation of swap space in partition failed
To
"I'm talking for myself, I don't know how to use this fix."
He gave two options. One was a workaround. The other, a fix was
intended to be patched into the Ubiquity installer. But then he moved
the bug to partman-basicfilesystems.
Unless ubiquity is calling on partman to do the format, I'm left
Yes, I trust Phillip Susi, but during an installation with Ubiquity is
supposed to work without this fix. The installation is suppose to work
automatically.
I'm talking for myself, I don't know how to use this fix.
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"The proper fix for this is for mkswap to be invoked with a -f switch to
force it to erase the MBR."
- the ever-knowledgeable Phil Susi
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Xubuntu Xenial Beta 1 - desktop amd64
I have this bug too. During the ubiquity installation, if I chose the
option "Erase disk and Install Ubuntu", just after clicked "continue", a
window appear (during the timezone window) and says :
"Failed to create a swap space:
The creation of swap space
Yes Phillip Susi,
I was not even able to create a new swap partition (using the whole
drive).
A clean drive worked (I wiped the SSD) - It seems the amd64 version is
more picky than the i386 version (of the same Xenial beta 1).
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ISO-testing Lubuntu Xenial desktop amd64:
There is a window with the title ' Could not create a swap partition'
and the text 'Failed to create swap in partition no 5 on SCSI7 (0,0,0)
(sda) [In Swedish]
There was already swap created by the i386 version and accepted by it at
'Something else' (by
mkswap fails because you appear to have something that looks like an MBR
( like a previous fat filesystem ) in that partition and mkswap has a
foolish check where it refuses to wipe out an MBR that is triggered by
this and the fact that you are using fakeraid. You can work around this
by using dd
^
Xenial install: This has something to do with how extended partitions are
treated as locked.
After reformatting the drive through GParted live:
1. Delete main ext4 partition
2. Delete swap partition inside the extended container.
3. Delete extended container partition.
The container
20151023 wily install: I cleared up, or bypassed, the problem by
unlocking the swap partition using "Swapoff" option found in GParted.
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Just happened to me while performing an auto-resize test with Ubuntu
GNOME 20151020 Wily, see screenshot.
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** Tags added: wily
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Present in the latest Wily Xubuntu ISO.
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Ubuntu installer says: The creation of swap space in partition failed
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I tried this with 13.10 and had the same problem.
The work-around is to manually set every swap partition entry to 'do not use',
save one.
It installed fine for me afterwards.
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Just to say I tried this in 12.10 aplha 3 ang get the same result.
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Ubuntu installer says: The creation of swap space in partition failed
This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.
A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/990744
** Tags added: iso-testing
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What list? The one showed in a block box during setup?
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Ubuntu installer says: The creation of swap space in partition failed
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Make sure you have run the last item in the long list of executable
items (down many times, or you won't see).
This item will commit your disk using plan - write to disk, then you may
advance to next step.
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** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Triaged
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = High
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So, the bug is confirmed but is anyone fixing it?
I'm not a coder, but I will reiterate that any information needed I'll gladly
post it, if I can. I really want to use this LTS.
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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Same problem, all partitions are shown at least twice (precise release),
and if swap space is there, the mentioned error is displayed.
In my case, the system was already partitioned, I just needed to
reformat some of them. Choosing do not use for all swap partitions
helped me to get through the
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