I just got a report from somebody on askubuntu.com that may be related
to this bug.

The problem:
If you check the "Encrypt home folder" box while installing, for some reason 
Ubiquity uses the first swap it finds as encrypted swap (and therefore has to 
"format" it). In his case, he was installing to a USB flash drive and it found 
the swap on his main installation and corrupted it. Every time he would boot 
his flash drive it would corrupt his main installation's swap.


The solution:
Because an entry was placed in /etc/crypttab, the swap got re-"formatted" 
(secure wiped) for use with eCryptfs's encrypted swap. Removing the entry 
solved the problem and he was able to boot his USB without corrupting his swap 
space.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/42159

Title:
  If an existing swap partition is marked to be formatted, it gets
  "corrupted" and unused in the final installed system, because the
  LiveCD is using it

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/42159/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

Reply via email to