Comment 0 for bug 1490824

I am trying to install wily-desktop-i386.iso, downloaded on August 31.

I am trying to install onto a USB drive, sdc, with sdc1 being /boot and sdc2 being a physical volume for encryption.

Also on this system is a hard drive, sda, with a previous Ubuntu install, including a swap partition.

When I try to create a physical volume for encryption on sdc2, I am prompted for a password. After entering the password, the following message is displayed:

"Unsafe swap space detected. An unsafe swap space has been detected. [snip] Please disable the swap space (e.g. by running swapoff) ..."

The problem is, no matter how many times I run swapoff, ubiquity reactivates the swap automatically and repeatedly.

For example, even if I run swapoff immediately prior to entering the encryption password, ubiquity will reactivate the swap prior to creating the physical volume for encryption, and the encryption will again fail.

So...

1) It appears that swapoff is insufficient. In reality, there must be no visible swap partitions on the system.

2) The error message "Unsafe swap space detected" could certainly be displayed prior to asking me to enter my password.

Either or both of these could be fixed. Or the error message could be updated to say: "Sorry, you cannot create encrypted partitions as long as swap partitions are visible on this system."

Thanks!