[Bug 57763] Re: If ubiquity disables swap during installation, system may become unusable

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  If ubiquity disables swap during installation, system may become
  unusable

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in ubiquity package in Baltix:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  If Ubuntu activates an existing swap partition during LiveCD boot,
  ubiquity disables the swap in the partitioning stage (at least when
  choosing "manual partitioning"). If there's not enough RAM available,
  disabling the swap partition will make the system unusable - even
  switching to a VT won't be possible.

  This might be a generic Linux problem (disabling swap when there's not
  enough RAM available will probably "freeze" any Linux system), so I
  don't know if it would be possible to solve this in the kernel itself.
  If not, it might be possible to find a way to get partitioning done
  without disabling swap. Or, if the used memory doesn't fit into swap,
  display a warning message...

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