I just did an LVM+ecryptfs installation on trusty, and it turns out that
the even bigger breakage of bug 953875 trumps this bug -- i. e. in
trusty you have a wiped /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1 due to the
ubiquity part of that bug, thus the device in /etc/crypttab is invalid,
and the invalid /etc/fstab mount is displayed quickly by mountall (in
plymouth) but does not block the boot. Thus there is no security issue
for trusty, just no swap and wasted disk space. Once we fix bug 953875
in trusty this one should get fixed as well, though.

** Changed in: ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu Trusty)
   Importance: High => Medium

** Description changed:

  When installing Ubuntu with "Use LVM" (but not encryption!), and
  "encrypt my home dir", the installer adds the original unencrypted swap
  to fstab. Then, ecryptfs-setup-swap keeps that, and additionally
  configures an encrypted swap via an UUID and without offset (which would
- trigger bug 953857 again!), so that you end up with *two* swap configs
+ trigger bug 953875 again!), so that you end up with *two* swap configs
  for one and the same partition, once unencrypted and once encrypted:
  
  fstab:
  /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1 none swap sw 0 0
  /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 none swap sw 0 0
  
  crypttab:
  cryptswap1 UUID=f636d7ef-9405-482d-a90a-5ba67026fcfb /dev/urandom 
swap,offset=1024,cipher=aes-xts-plain64
  
  (UUID is for ubuntubuntu--vg-swap_1). This can't work, as the
  unencrypted one is faster, so trying to set up the encrypted one fails.

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Title:
  installer in LVM mode sets up broken encrypted swap, using duplicate
  unencrypted swap

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