[Bug 1066480] Re: Installer doesn't show encrypted partitions

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Not only the instalation procedure tells that there's no system installed, which is, at minimum, confusing for beginers, but the workarrounds do not work either.
I tried this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1205372 which uses the alternate instalation.
The solution was tried and the system was installed but, since my user directory was encrypted in /home/username/.Private using encryptfs, it failed to mount, and I didn't find a workaround yet, since no username nor any passwork seems to work, even typing the exact terms I entered during install. So I can only access a Guest account, which dosn't allow me to access any Terminal nor sudo neither any graphical interface that requires root.
It seems that alternate install doesn't have the necessary packages to deal with encryptfs, since it doesn't understands its partition type. I tried to get into recovery other times to try to figure out something, using the bash, in fstab, but nothing works. Even adding /home/username/.Private /home/username encryptfs defaults 0 0 makes the installed system (either the installed or the recovery from the alternate CD) tell me it is not a valid partition.
Maybe the instalation procedure in the common CD and ALSO in the alternate CD should be changed to alert users that if they have an encrypted LVM, they probably don't need an encrypted home. When I did this mess I was really thinking I was making a separate /home partition.
I also tried this one: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=823929 using the normal CD.
This didn't work for me. I did everything hastala told us to do and started the install procedure. It failled in just substituting the previous system (only erase /root, /bin, etc.). It wanted to format the whole partition. Since I have /home and / in the same encrypted lvm partition, it wouldn't wwork for me.

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Title:
  Installer doesn't show encrypted partitions

Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu quantal series:
  Fix Released
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Quantal:
  Won't Fix
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Raring:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hallo
  Testing 20121014 amd64 desktop in virtual env.
  in the disk was already present an encrypted Ubuntu installation, and when I try to install a second Ubuntu it don't consider the encrypted partitions, suggesting to erase all the disk instead to instal along side.
  But I want a free system for my son and an ecrypted one for my work on the same disk.
  Attached screenshot
  Thanks
  Fabio

  We can also see that the partition is regularry mounted and showed in
  launcher.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.12.11 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.328
  Date: Sun Oct 14 10:55:01 2012
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121014)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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