[DATALOSS] ubiquity overwrites luks-formatted device without warning

[roland.olbricht]

During installation from the desktop CD, I've chosen the option to install Ubuntu parallel to the existing partitions. I'm installing Ubuntu 11.04.

I expected it to use the empty space on /dev/sda, but instead it has overwritten without warning the external hard disk /dev/sdb which contained a luks-formatted partition (previously created in live mode).

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't start working on it yet, because your description didn't include enough information.

Please execute the following command 'ubuntu-bug ubiquity' as it will gather detailed information regarding your installation. Thanks in advance.

[roland.olbricht (roland-olbricht)]

See the result as bug 814319 .

[trina jackson (trina-jackson46)]

During installation from the desktop CD, I've chosen the option to install Ubuntu parallel to the existing partitions. I'm installing Ubuntu 11.04.

I expected it to use the empty space on /dev/sda, but instead it has overwritten without warning the external hard disk /dev/sdb which contained a luks-formatted partition (previously created in live mode).

[Luke Faraone (lfaraone)]

trina, is there a reason you made this bug private?

[Evan Peck (colors)]

Is this bug being worked on? Active Development?

[Evan Peck (colors)]

Ummm, after looking into it, I have to say:
 h-ruestig, please do not assign yourself to a bug unless you are currently working out a solution.
Also, this is a valid bug so I will set it to New.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This bug is not a duplicate of bug 420080 as that is regarding using the alternate CD / debian-installer and this is regarding using ubiquity. Please do not mark it as a duplicate of that other bug.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

live-cd currently does not have partman plugins installed for cryptsetup / luks devices.

Partman has detected no partitions on the sdb, and total usable/resizable size of 0 bytes.

After choosing "parrallel to exsiting installation" ubiquity should have still presented you with the sreen to select a drive and/or define the resize split. Unfortunately, at this point partman probably defaulted to sdb as it is "bigger free" than the "resize of sda".

Installer generally allows the user to choose which partition to format and loose data on....

This will be improved for quantal. As the current plan is to include cryptsetup plugins, and we should be able to determine LUKS devices during the installation. Until then, LUKS disks will appear as opaque.

[papukaija (papukaija)]

This might be fixed when bug 1066480 is fixed.