[Bug 530252] Re: os-prober fails to recognize linux installations with crypted root partition

[Robie Basak]

@Nathaniel

Thank you for the merge proposal! Asking here in the bug since I think
my question is more general.

Please could you explain your use case? In reviewing your merge proposal
I'm missing that context which makes it difficult for me to verify the
correctness of your code.

os-prober is used by the installer, and when the installer runs, we
wouldn't expect the user to have any existing LUKS partitions unlocked,
right? So under what exact circumstances do you expect this change be
useful to users please?

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Title:
  os-prober fails to recognize linux installations with crypted root
  partition

Status in os-prober package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: os-prober

  On Karmic, os-prober fails to recognize linux installations with LUKS
  crypted root partition (which is pretty common on laptops nowadays).

  linux-boot-prober at least finds partitions when they are luksOpen'ed,
  but /usr/lib/os-probes-mounted/90linux-distro doesn't even try to look
  at /dev/mapper partitions or to use linux-boot-prober.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Mar  1 19:58:15 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: os-prober 1.35
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
  SourcePackage: os-prober
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686

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