[Bug 448998] [NEW] live cd swaps on luks partition

[Erlenmayr]

Public bug reported:

Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop live system swaps on LUKS/dm-crypt partitions.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8088875

This is a very serious problem! After the live system executes "mkswap"
on a LUKS partition, any data is lost because the blocks storing the
LUKS keys are trashed.

The LUKS/dm-crypt partition was set up by Ubuntu 8.10 setup. It was
marked "Linux" (hex code 83) - not swap! - and the first bytes were the
magic string "LUKS".

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: linux-image-generic 2.6.28.15.20
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: linux-meta
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic x86_64

** Affects: linux-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug

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live cd swaps on luks partition
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