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Ubuntu 12.04 alternate install with LUKS fails on SSD

Bug #1000947 reported by Stephan Wissel
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Bug Description

System:
Lenovo W500, 8 GB RAM
Transcend SSD720 256 GB
USB Stick with Ubuntu 12.04 alternate installer

New install of Ubuntu 12.04, for disk selected: guided partition, entire partition with LVM and LUKS encryption
Installation seems to work as expected. Last step that asks for "Install GRUB" does NOT happen, system just boots.

result /boot is empty

Manually booted and manually mounted LUKS partitions: partitions are there.

Tested with standard disk: works as expected.

Suspicion: the SSD might be to fast, so installer mixes things up?

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Phil. V (philip.v)
affects: ubuntu → debian-installer (Ubuntu)
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Stephan Wissel (stw-linux) wrote :

More information:

Did a new install using priority=low on boot command line. This offers more options. The reboot happens when installing software. I select "Ubuntu desktop" and it will try to install about 1090 packages. The "retrieve packages for all works. Then on installation when trying to install the libre office impress packages it sends the termsig and the machine shuts down.

I first though my memory stick might be faulty, so I downloaded a fresh copy of the alternate installer iso (from the Singapore mirror - the first ISO was via Bittorrent) and copied the iso on a CD and repeated.

Crashes at the same package.

Is there a way to slow the install down - on the same machine installing onto a normal 500G disk (non SSD) works like a charm.

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Stephan Wissel (stw-linux) wrote :

Further update:
tried again and in "select and install software" went to "manual selection" and deselected all libre office files. Now the installation runs completely and I get a complete Ubuntu installation. It behaves strangely (dock icons not showing, software centre graying out on interactions), so I might have overlooked something... but it is further than I got before.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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