Getting a swap file even when a swap partition is added

[Stéphane Graber]

Recently deploying a number of 20.04 systems, I was very surprised to find a /SWAP.img file and matching /etc/fstab entry despite me having added a dedicated swap partition through subiquity.

I'd have expected subiquity to skip the swap file creation if a dedicated partition is used.

[Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)]

Yes, that's definitely what should have happened. Can you attach or send me /var/log/installer from one of these systems?

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Attached the installer logs

[Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)]

Ah right this is fallout from the client/server split. Should be easy to fix.

[Thomas (teclab-at)]

still happening in 20.04.3

[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira (mfo)]

This is reproducible with the main branch (commit 43d1206855d4),
so apparently the Fix Committed status isn't accurate right now.

Pull Request submitted, test steps in there.

https://github.com/canonical/subiquity/pull/1459

[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira (mfo)]

https://github.com/canonical/subiquity/commit/bccdff2792a89281cfe74d2b8dc1cc14fcd3b69e

[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira (mfo)]

Oops, please read Fix Committed (can't change it back; sorry).

It's still in the snap edge channel.

Please note that, at the moment, the version string won't
allow even `refresh-installer.channel=edge` to pick it up
on 22.04+, but it should get there at some point.

For testing purposes, one can switch into a terminal with
eg, ctrl-alt-f2 and force `snap refresh --edge subiquity`.

$ snap info subiquity
...
  latest/edge: 22.02.2+git777.bccdff27 2022-10-26 (4033) 27MB classic

[Jamie Murphy (itjamie)]

im still experiencing this in the latest 22.04.01 images