18.04 LTS installation failure

[Doc Blaha]

 Thank you Liam for your response.
I apologize for using formatted text. I don't believe I was aware that I was doing that. I will do my best to avoid that in the future. If this reply is of formatted text then it may be my email editor. Please let me know.
I appreciate yours suggestion:
"I would suggest reformatting with encryption off, installing into a non-encrypted root
partition, with a separate /home partition that is encrypted."
Actually when I originally installed 16.04 LTS on the brand new encrypted hard drive that sequence appears to have been done automatically. However, when I used the Ubuntu software upgrade from 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS (as automatically made available online through 16.04 LTS software upgrades) in August 2018 the upgrade failed to make the upgrade apply to both the non-encrypted root partition with the already available /home directory on the encrypted partition. After the upgrade to 18.04 LTS was complete I was brought up to the main Ubuntu panel and do some exploring and reviewing of my files and more.  Let me be clear, 18.04 LTS is already upgraded and installed and working on my machine The upgrade failed to recognize what already existed (the non-encrypted root partition and the /home (and more) directories on the encrypted partition. Really all I personally need is to establish the necessary files on the non-encrypted partition that provide the linkage to the encrypted partition /home directory. I made the assumption that trying to reinstall 18.04 LTS using the Installation portion of the LiveCD it would recognize that 18.04 LTS was already installed, at the very least see the partitions, and have me up and working in very little time.
I see you seemed to think I was somehow using a remote login from another machine.  Apparently my using the LiveCD from the DVD drive of my Ubuntu machine gave that impression. I was able to use the LiveCD from the DVD drive and from there directly access the encrypted hard drive after entering my passcode. So yes, to a small extent it was remote access even though both running the LiveCD (try Ubuntu now) and using it to access the unbootable encrypted 18.04 LTS hard drive were in the same box.
I hope this gives a clearer view of my situation.
Thank you,Richard


    On Tuesday, June 4, 2019, 05:33:42 AM EDT, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 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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