[Bug 1863672] Re: The 'new' persistent live method starting in 19.10 no longer works

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

Argh sorry I've been meaning to look into this but other things keep coming
up. To be clear: an existing casper-rw partition *should* be being used.
It's a bug that it is not.

On Fri, 28 Feb 2020, 21:25 sudodus, <1863672 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:

> > I noticed that the version of casper has changed from 1.438build1
> (when it worked) to 1.439 so I > suspect that this has caused the
> failure.
>
> Today I tested the Lubuntu Focal daily iso file with caxper version
> 1.441. It is still affected by this bug: There is no persistence with
> the label 'casper-rw'. It works when I re-labeled the partition for
> persistence to 'writable'.
>
> I noticed that there are some new output lines during boot, that I guess
> are for debugging casper, so I have hope that this bug will soon be
> fixed :-)
>
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Title:
  The 'new' persistent live method starting in 19.10 no longer works

Status in casper package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I am iso-testing Focal Fossa and I am creating and maintaining tools
  to create live and persistent live USB drives. Lubuntu Focal daily
  live dated 2020-02-12 works. But the current version of Lubuntu Focal
  dated 2020-02-16 (zsynced approx. one hour ago) does not work when
  using exactly the same method using mkusb-plug, that edits the iso
  file to replace 'quiet splash' with 'persistent  ' /12 characters/ and
  creating an ext partition behind it.

  I noticed that the version of casper has changed from 1.438build1
  (when it worked) to 1.439 so I suspect that this has caused the
  failure.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: casper 1.439
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-14.17-generic 5.4.18
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-14-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu16
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.439
  CurrentDesktop: LXQt
  Date: Mon Feb 17 20:54:54 2020
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Alpha amd64 (20200216)
  SourcePackage: casper
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  mtime.conffile..etc.casper.conf: 2020-02-17T20:52:45.667205

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