manual ("something else") live cd partitioner doesn't understand lvm properly
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Medium
|
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
1. Start ubquity
2. Go to step 6 of 7 ('Prepare disk space')
3. Choose 'manually edit partition table' and click 'forward'
Expected result:
Physical disks, and lvm vg's are treated as being conceptually
the same. Ditto partitions and lvm lv's.
Actual result:
lvm lv's are treated as being physical disks.
The lvm lv's appear in the drop-down list of disks. Selecting one
shows a fake partition in the partition list, the name of which is the
path of the lv with a 1 appended. There is a warning sign beside the
entry.
On the page where you choose what partition is mounted where, the lvm lv's are completely absent from the drop-down lists.
This has been tested on dapper live beta1, dapper live beta2, and
on an installed dapper system uptodate as of today (2006/05/07).
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #1 |
| Stephen Shirley (kormat) wrote | #2 |
| Luka Renko (lure) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in ubiquity: | |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
| Luka Renko (lure) wrote | #4 |
| Vit Hrachovy (flaska) wrote | #5 |
| Hendy Irawan (ceefour) wrote | #6 |
| Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
| assignee: | nobody → Dmitrijs Ledkovs (dmitrij.ledkov) |
| Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | In Progress → Triaged |
| summary: |
- live cd partitioner doesn't understand lvm properly + manual ("something else") live cd partitioner doesn't understand lvm + properly |
| Sampsa Riikonen (sampsa-riikonen) wrote | #7 |
| Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) → nobody |
| assignee: | nobody → Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl) |
What distribution (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, etc.) are you installing?
I've arranged for LVM partitions not to appear in the autopartitioner's disk selector, which was just a bug (specifically, bug 32845). You seem to be suggesting that there's a bug in the manual partitioner as well, though, so I need to know whether this is the GTK or the KDE frontend.
The bug here is really that LVM partitions are offered at all. LVM partitions are intentionally not supported by the live installer; we decided that we don't have time to do a reasonable job on this for Dapper, so it's better to disable support for them. The text-mode install CD still supports them.