live cd swaps on luks partition

[Erlenmayr]

Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop live system swaps on LUKS/dm-crypt partitions.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8088875

This is a very serious problem! After the live system executes "mkswap" on a LUKS partition, any data is lost because the blocks storing the LUKS keys are trashed.

The LUKS/dm-crypt partition was set up by Ubuntu 8.10 setup. It was marked "Linux" (hex code 83) - not swap! - and the first bytes were the magic string "LUKS".

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: linux-image-generic 2.6.28.15.20
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: linux-meta
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic x86_64

[kernel-janitor (kernel-janitor)]

[This is an automated message. Apologies if it has reached you inappropriately.]

This bug was reported against the linux-meta package when it likely should have been reported against the linux package instead. We are automatically transitioning this to the linux kernel package so that the appropriate teams are notified and made aware of this issue.

If this bug really is a bug in the linux-meta package you can move it back to linux-meta and set the Status to Confirmed, or contact us on the #ubuntu-kernel channel on the FreeNode IRC server. Thanks.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug was filed against a series that is no longer supported and so is being marked as Won't Fix. If this issue still exists in supported series, please file a new bug.