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Calamares Installer: Manual partitioning, unable to create LVs on VG on LUKS. Unable to install to existing LUKS volume or alongside existing LVs on LUKS.
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ISO: pureos-8.0-gnome-live_20190504-amd64.hybrid.iso
Calamares: 3.2.7

State before beginning installation:

Device         Boot Start       End   Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1       2048 524290047 524288000  250G 83 Linux

root@pureos:~# blkid /dev/nvme0n1p1 
/dev/nvme0n1p1: UUID="f87cbc1a-fdb3-4ff8-b135-e7da1a639629" LABEL="pureos" TYPE="crypto_LUKS" PARTUUID="de043f60-01"

Case 1)
LUKS not opened:

root@pureos:~# ls /dev/mapper
control

Select manual partitioning.
No option in installer to open the existing LUKS volume, only to replace/format or delete it.

Case 2)**
LUKS opened manually on command line, existing LVM VG and LVs to install onto

root@pureos:~# cryptsetup open /dev/nvme0n1p1 nvme0n1p1
Enter passphrase for /dev/nvme0n1p1: 

root@pureos:~# ls /dev/mapper/
control  nvme0n1p1  pureos-pureos--home  pureos-pureos--root  pureos-pureos--swap

Select manual partitioning.
Installer shows /dev/nvme0n1p1 as LVM PV even though it is clearly a LUKS volume and /dev/mapper/nvme0n1p1 is the PV.
Select storage device "pureos (/dev/pureos)" from drop-down.
Configure the 3 existing LVs for /, /home and swap (Edit -> Format ->...).
There is no way to specify the order in which you want them to be placed (creation order doesn;t matter, it places them... whereever)
Continue with installation.
Installer says it will "Delete partition /dev/pureos/pureos-root", etc. even though it is a LVM Logical Volume and not partition and it doesn't need to delete the LVs, just format them.
Continue with installation.

Throws error:

The installer failed to delete partition /dev/pureos.
========================================================================================== Delete partition ‘/dev/pureos/pureos-root’ (25.00 GiB, unknown) ========================================================================================== ========================================================================================== Job: Delete file system on ‘/dev/pureos/pureos-root’ ========================================================================================== ========================================================================================== Job: Delete the partition ‘/dev/pureos/pureos-root’ ========================================================================================== ========================================================================================== Command: lvm lvremove --yes /dev/pureos/pureos-root ========================================================================================== Volume group "pureos" not found Cannot process volume group pureos

The LUKS volume is clearly closed:

root@pureos:~# ls /dev/mapper/
control

If I reopen it, the LVs are still there:

root@pureos:~# cryptsetup open /dev/nvme0n1p1 nvme0n1p1
Enter passphrase for /dev/nvme0n1p1: 
root@pureos:~# ls /dev/mapper/
control  nvme0n1p1  pureos-pureos--home  pureos-pureos--root  pureos-pureos--swap

Case 3)
as case 2, but only LVM VG installing alongside existing LVs:

Before installation:

root@pureos:~# lvs
  LV            VG     Attr       LSize  Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
  existing-test pureos -wi-a----- 25.00g

Select /dev/pureos from "Storage device" drop-down as before.
Select "Free space", click "Create".
Installer erroneously reports "Partition Type: GPT" even though this is a LVM LV.
Proceed with installation.

Installer throws error:

The installer failed to create partition on disk 'pureos'.
========================================================================================== Create a new partition (31.00 GiB, ext4) on ‘/dev/pureos’ ========================================================================================== ========================================================================================== Job: Create new partition on device ‘/dev/pureos’ ========================================================================================== ========================================================================================== Command: lvm lvcreate --yes --extents 7936 --name root pureos ========================================================================================== Volume group "pureos" not found Cannot process volume group pureos

LUKS volume is closed, same as case 2, when reopened, all is unchanged:

root@pureos:~# ls /dev/mapper/
control  nvme0n1p1  pureos-existing--test

Event Timeline

jjakob created this task.May 28 2019, 12:23

Case 4)
No prior partitions.

Start installer, select Manual partitioning.
Create partition type "pvm2 pv", select "Encrypt", enter password, click OK.
Click "New Volume Group", select "New Partition", input name "pureos", click OK.
From drop-down select "pureos /dev/pureos" VG.

The "Create" button is greyed out so no LVs can be created.

If I create a LUKS partition in the installer first, there's no way to create a LVM PV or VG on top of it afterwards.

jjakob renamed this task from Calamares Installer: Unable to install on existing LUKS volume to Calamares Installer: Manual partitioning, unable to create LVs on VG on LUKS. Unable to install to existing LUKS volume or alongside existing LVs on LUKS..May 28 2019, 12:39
jjakob updated the task description. (Show Details)May 28 2019, 12:42
jeremiah.foster triaged this task as High priority.Aug 27 2019, 07:09
circc added a subscriber: circc.Nov 11 2019, 12:30