Alternate Install Hang up by partitioner

[sly]

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
Install CD - Alternate (MD5 checksum -ok)
HW: Dell D630

By install Ubuntu with the Slovak (Slovakia) lang PC hang up when i am manual setting up the encrypted LVM partitions.
All works like this:

1. boot kernel with Slovak Lang,
2. setting keyboard, dhcp, hostname - all ok,
3. setting up the /boot partion -ok,
4. by setting up the encrypted partition with LVM and changing the format of root partiotin sporadicaly pc show loading partitioner 50% and hang.

I was thinking that is only my mistake by setting up the partitions, but i checked it many times and same issue. When i boot the kernel with EN lang the situation doesent occurred again and all works fine.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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[5tan (kamildor)]

Hi.
Installation (from 9.10 alternate CD) is stopped after choosing manual partitioning (progress bar stop on 50%).
I've reboot, and before choosing manual partitioning:
1. switch to console (Alt+F2),
2. activate shell (enter) and activate LVM (vgscan; vgchange -ay)
3. decrypt logical volumes (cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mapper/#NAME_OF_VG-NAME_OF_LOGICAL_VOLUME#)

After step 3: switching to console with debian-installer running (Alt+F1), choosing manual partitioning... And again - progress bar is stop on 50%.

Workaround:
1. Start computer with LiveCD
2. Add repositories (e.g. in synaptic)
3. Install lvm2 and cryptsetup and dependencies (apt-get install lvm2 cryptsetup)
4. Setup LVM and cryptosetup (e.g. vgscan, vgchange -ay, cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mapper/#VG-LV# #DECRYPTED_LV#)
5. Run "normal" installation
6. Choose manual partitioning in set-up partitions screen, and choose your /dev/mapper/#DECRYPTED_LV# (e.g. /dev/mapper/cryptroot)
7. Continue system installation - when it success please DON'T REBOOT!
8. Mount your fresh installed system in /mnt or what you want (remember mount your /usr/ LV - if any - on /mnt/usr/ and esspecialy /boot partition - if you have boot partition. Check your /etc/fstab )

####STEPS TO DO IN CHROOTED ENVIRONMENT###
9. Chroot into your fresh installed system (chroot /mnt)
10. You should mount /proc /sys/ and maybe /dev/ and /dev/pts (mount -t proc proc /proc; mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys; mount -t tmpfs udev /dev; mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts)
11. apt-get install lvm2 cryptsetup
12. Edit /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/cryptroot (echo "target=#CRYPTROOT#,source=/dev/mapper/#DECRYPTED_LV#" > /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/cryptroot )
13. Edit /etc/crypttab (if you want other encrypted volumes to mount on boot-time)
14. Update initrd with update-initramfs -u -k `uname -r`
15. umount what you before mount in chroot environment
16. exit from chroot
### END OF CHROOTED ENVIRONMENT STEPS ###
17. Umount everything you mounted before you chroot (probably you can safely skip this step - LiveCD umount it for you on restart)
18. Restart system

If everything is OK after reboot you should see grub menu, and after few seconds "Enter passphrase": :)

Good luck!

[Narcis Garcia (narcisgarcia)]

This report can be related to this other:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/503848