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Swap might be used by default in partitioning but errors out because it's a security vulnerability
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I just remember this happening but QA should scope this out while we're working on QA improvements for UEFI and LVM installs.

I don't remember if it was with Encrypted LVM or just LVM (or maybe just the default install) but I remember installing Lubuntu at one point and it (rightfully) errored out on me because the swap was unencrypted and it's a security vuln for it to be done that way.

Could someone from QA scope this out to see if it's reproducible, and if it is, figure out a potential solution?

Thanks.

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tsimonq2 created this task.Nov 26 2017, 1:16 PM
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wxl added a comment.Nov 27 2017, 1:03 AM

kind of depends on T4: Fix the missing UEFI packages to actually check widely.

wxl moved this task from New to Blocked on the QA board.Nov 27 2017, 8:38 AM
tsimonq2 moved this task from Blocked to New on the QA board.Nov 27 2017, 8:03 PM

Not really @wxl, I figured out how to reproduce it. When installing Lubuntu using the latest Daily Live image with virt-manager and UEFI emulation, when selecting LVM and encryption for the disk setup, it barfs this at me:

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This doesn't seem to be because of the installer but the configuration that it tries to install. It's probably a global issue too, given the nature of the problem

Could you please talk with someone about this @wxl to see if we can get it sorted? (Maybe file a bug somewhere?)

wxl added a comment.Nov 28 2017, 11:46 AM

Did a little bug searching and there are many - similar bugs. There's even one that seems possibly related, but affects Qt ubiquity. This is ooooold. The swapoff suggestion is certainly a reasonable one and one that's been a workaround in the past. That said, I've pinged cyphermox in hopes that he can provide some help.

tsimonq2 added a comment.Nov 28 2017, 4:44 PM

Then I guess it's a good thing we're fixing old-but-still-relevant bugs, eh @wxl? 😛

tsimonq2 raised the priority of this task from High to Unbreak Now!.Dec 8 2017, 8:24 AM
tsimonq2 moved this task from New to Blocked on the QA board.

Bump on this?

tsimonq2 added a comment.Jan 25 2018, 8:22 PM

Bump. This needs to be fixed as soon as possible.

tsimonq2 closed this task as Resolved.May 16 2018, 2:25 PM

This was fixed last cycle.

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