[Bug 1759253] Re: Swapfile incorrectly set up when installing Bionic from iso

[Simon Quigley]

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

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Title:
  Swapfile incorrectly set up when installing Bionic from iso

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  I needed to do an 'emergency' reinstall while travelling owing to a
  hopeless corrupted encryptfs.  I happened to have a Bionic iso from
  March 11 and used that to install to my laptop.

  Soon after installing, I noticed various problems with logins, hangs,
  etc. which I recently tracked down to the swapfile not being correctly
  installed.  In particular, I selected encrypted home directory (and
  swap).  The installer make a swap file as /swapfile but entered:

  
  cryptswap1 /target/swapfile /dev/urandom swap,offset=1024,cipher=aes-xts-plain64

  but of course there is no /target/swapfile.  Must be some incomplete
  set up here?  You can see the confusion in the attached syslog.

  Also, I have a swap partition preexisting, but I don't recall the
  installer asking me about setting up a swap partition.  When I
  released swap was missing, I set that up by hand.

  Anyway, my bad for not checking swap sooner, but it would be good to
  check this to prevent some new Ubuntu user from having to rediscover
  this problem later.

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