Public bug reported:
This was the installer for Lubuntu 24.04 LTS AND in the installer for
Lubuntu 24.10.
Lubuntu & Ubuntu use the same installer, so it should apply across the
entire Ubuntu family.
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( the install-images exclude mdadm, which is also a bug: that HAS to be
available without internet during any install/rescue, from the live-DVD
images )
Manual partitioning, TRYING & failing to install into an LVM lv, whose
pv is on an underlying mdadm raid1 pair ( with 1 member using -W, or
Write-Mostly, since it's MUCH slower than the other, but redundancy's
important, given that some devices fail, inevitably )
So, in the manual-partitioning, I told it to use a normal-partition for
EFI ( 320MiB ), and for GRUB2 ( 64MiB ), a normal partition for swap (
bigger than RAM, of course ), & to use a nice 100GB LVM lv for
installing into, that I'd already prepared..
However, once it got going, it broke everything, by DEACTIVATING all
volume-groups, & then, of course, the install-target didn't exist,
anymore..
The error it gave was, in a popup-box, this:
"Main script file /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-
gnu/calamares/modules/mount/main.py for python job mount raised an
exception."
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OK, so it's coded to destroy attempts-to-install-into-LVM..
Can it install into a normal partition, in the same system?
No, it can't. This time it crashed in the "fstab" module:
"Main script file /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-
gnu/calamares/modules/fstab/main.py for python job fstab raised an
exception."
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Obviously this forces people studying to be competent sysadmins to ..
switch to another distro.
Mint worked, btw, having both mdadm & LVM in the install-image and
working properly.
However, you'd never know if nobody who hit the bug told you, so .. here
the info is.
Kaizen,
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** Affects: calamares-settings-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
24.04 & 24.10 installers break LVM, deactivating all vg's, AND can't
install into a non-VM partition in the same system, either.
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