problems with multiple swap partitions

[Justin Sojda]

I tried to install Dapper Drake via the live cd using Espresso.

I received warnings in some other language, and I believe it was spanish.
I didn't write it down, but when setting up the mount points I received something about "duplicato".
I think the problem is with having 2 swap partitions. I have one swap on my first harddrive, and another swap on my 2nd harddrive.
For some reason Espresso wants to format my hdc2 swap partition on my second harddrive.
That's when I receive this warning.
So then I set up the /swap mountpoint on the second harddrive and unchecked format, and it still tried to format it, and giving my the duplicato warning again.
So this bug report may actually be 2 bugs in one.
Espresso wouldn't let me complete the install with the warnings up, so i guess that part works.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I've committed a fix for the Spanish messages now. Let's keep this bug open for the swap problem.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I've also now committed a fix to ensure that swap is exempt from the duplicate mountpoint checks, since obviously it should be fine to have multiple swap partitions. This leaves the bug that swap gets formatted no matter what; I think that might be fixed now, but I'll need to check.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The remaining part of this bug was that multiple swap partitions are formatted no matter what. That bug is fixed in this upload:

ubiquity (0.99.76) dapper; urgency=low

  * Make deselection of mount points actually have a useful effect on
    partman_commit (closes: Malone #35079).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Sat, 6 May 2006 00:09:22 +0100

[Christian González (droetker)]

This bug is not fixed, it occurs in hardy beta too...