[Bug 709363] Re: swap partition disappeared during installation

[Colin Watson]

Like Evan, I've failed to reproduce this, even with amd64, and even with
dding /dev/urandom over the start of the region where the swap partition
is going to live first.  But maybe I was just unlucky.

My best guess is still that libparted's swap initialisation code might
be at fault.  I'm going to try dropping that in favour of mkswap.  If it
recurs, please reopen this bug.

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Title:
  swap partition disappeared during installation

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Natty:
  Won't Fix
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Oneiric:
  Won't Fix
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Precise:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  I noticed that I had no swap mounted, looked in /etc/fstab and see a
  swap partition but it isn't usable because the partition has no UUID.
  Reading /var/log/installer/syslog the partition was used at one point
  in time but then stopped being used.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: ubiquity (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
  Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Jan 28 08:58:46 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_MESSAGES=en_AG.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity

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