18.04 LTS installation failure

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 at 17:15, Doc Blaha <blaha.invent at prodigy.net> wrote:

> When the upgrade to 18.04 occurred the upgrade did not process the encrypted harddrive part as expected the same way that it had with 16.04. When I later used the LiveCD to attempt to correct the upgrade the problem I found was this. Using LiveCD as my temporary 18.04 OS I was able to access the encrypted harddrive by entering the password and then I could look all through the harddrive, even see the partitions were EXT3/EXT4. Then when I attempted to use the LiveCD Installation Step 6 I chose 'Something Else' because I knew the partitions where there. I had just seen them from the LiveCD. But when I take the steps using the Install program from the disk I am not given the same opportunity to enter the Password so that the installation program can see the Partitions that already exist.

One thing -- please don't use formatted text on mailing lists. It
makes it hard to read and to quote.

First: what make/model of hard disk is this?

Second: since you have your files backed up, I would suggest
reformatting with encryption off, installing into a non-encrypted root
partition, with a separate /home partition that is encrypted.

Or, better still, don't use encryption at all. It's difficult, it's
error-prone (like this), and it's very hard to fix when it goes wrong.
As you have discovered. I avoid it altogether unless it is a company
requirement, and then only on laptops, and only on the home partition.

If you wish to continue troubleshooting, though...

Do you have direct access to this machine? Your email reads a little
as if it is a remote hosted box.

If you do: how did you upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04? Using the script as normal?

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