[Bug 709363] Re: swap partition disappeared during installation

[Colin Watson]

Specifically, the encrypted swap situation is complicated by ecryptfs-
setup-swap apparently scanning for UUID=$uuid entries in /etc/fstab, but
not reproducing them in /etc/crypttab.

All the other problems, including Brian's original bug, come down to
blkid not recognising a swap partition which the kernel apparently has
recognised.  I suspect that some part of the swap partition has not been
properly initialised.  I'm wondering if (a) this might be amd64-specific
and (b) whether it might have something to do with using libparted to
initialise the swap partition.  Since we ought to be moving away from
the latter anyway and just using mkswap, it's possible that that might
be an easy fix.  At this point, that remains a guess, and I'll need to
try to reproduce this to make that guess any firmer.

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Title:
  swap partition disappeared during installation

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Natty:
  Won't Fix
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Oneiric:
  Won't Fix
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Precise:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  I noticed that I had no swap mounted, looked in /etc/fstab and see a
  swap partition but it isn't usable because the partition has no UUID.
  Reading /var/log/installer/syslog the partition was used at one point
  in time but then stopped being used.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: ubiquity (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
  Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Jan 28 08:58:46 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_MESSAGES=en_AG.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity

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