Hmm, maybe we investigate telling them to use alternate image as that does not use zram in the setup?
Regards, Phill. On 9 November 2015 at 09:45, Nio Wiklund <nio.wikl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Phill, > > Is this something for you? To mention that people should swapoff (to > turn off zram) in order to install Lubuntu with encryption (via the > desktop iso files). > > Or maybe it is already mentioned somewhere in the Lubuntu wiki/help > pages, in that case where? > > Best regards > Nio > > > -------- Vidarebefordrat meddelande -------- > Ämne: Re: a request > Datum: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 23:10:44 -0800 > Från: Tom Cloyd <tomcloydm...@gmail.com> > Till: Nio Wiklund <nio.wikl...@gmail.com> > > > > Nio, > > Thanks for your suggestions. I do understand the volunteer thing, as I > give my own professional services away for free a great deal - to folks > who simply couldn't otherwise afford them. > > I do appreciate what all of you do, in spite of my voiced frustration. > Really! > > I'll follow up on your suggestions if my current gambit doesn't do the > trick. > > Regarding the swapoff issue, might it make sense for some mention of > this to be made on wiki? Just a thought. It's a gotcha that's got me a > number of times. :) > > Tom > > On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Nio Wiklund <nio.wikl...@gmail.com > <mailto:nio.wikl...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi again Tom, > > We are all volunteers. If you want professional service, please use > a commercial operating system. > > That said, I'll try to reply inline (below). > > Best regards > Nio > > Den 2015-11-09 kl. 06:25, skrev Tom Cloyd: > > I wish to register a protest: I'm still trying to get Lubuntu (LB) > to do > > what it says it CAN do - namely install to a hard drive, setting it > up > > as an encrypted LVM drive. > > > > After multiple failures with an 15.04 ISO disk, and then an 15.10 > > alternate ISO, I'm now trying it with a new 15.10 desktop ISO - the > > version I actually want to install. > > > > At the beginning one has the option of trying out LB or going > directly > > to an install; I took the latter option. Quite a ways into the > install, > > after every option is set, and the actual install is about to happen, > > there is this unfortunate error message which stops the whole > process. I > > wrote about this in my initial email about my installation problems: > > > > /I got an "Unsafe swap space detected" error message. This makes no > > sense to me.LB is running in ram. It's installing to a clean HD. WHAT > > swap is being talked about? > > > > I tried again, this time starting LB from the DVD, and then > initiating > > the install to the USB HD. Same result. > > > > The error message says that I must "disable the swap space (e.g., by > > running swapoff) or configure an encrypted swap space and then run > setup > > of encrypted volumes again." > > > > So, I call up lxterminal and execute sudo swapoff -a./ > > The ubiquity installer has an issue with zram. You have to turn it off > (which you did) for this option (installing with encryption) to work. > > > This is clearly a programming issue. If an error message like that > is to > > be issued, there needs to be immediate access to a command line so it > > can be fixed. To have to halt the installation, losing the work it > took > > to get to this point, then issue the command (which by the way is NOT > > "swapoff" but "sudo swapoff -a". as one discovers after more hills > and > > valleys), then restart...is nuts. > > > > But that's what I did, again. Which brings me to this, also > previously > > encountered - and I quote again from my initial email of October 18: > > > > /"Volume group name already in use. The volume group name used to > > automatically partition using LVM is already in use. Lowering the > > priority for configuration questions will allow you to specify an > > alternative name." > > > > I have no idea what this means./ > > Maybe there is some information on the target drive, that is confusing > the installer. > > If that is causing your problem, it should work after you wipe the > first > megabyte of the target drive and create a new partition table. You can > do that with the command line tool 'dd' plus the GUI tool 'gparted', or > safer with 'mkusb version 10.3' via > > ppa:mkusb/unstable > > and use the 'wipe menu'. > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb > > > I really dislike cryptic error message. "Lowering the priority..." > Huh? > > AND, there's this: Since this is an install which wipes the target > disk, > > there IS no volume group name at the beginning. So it's not just > > cryptic, it's wrong. > > > > I really like Lubuntu, AND I truly need a fully encrypted > installation, > > OS and all. The attempt to do it on a USB hard drive is just a > proof of > > concept, to show it can be done. But it can't, at least by me, so > far. I > > did it with 15.04 on my netbook but after that it's been all > failures. > > > > I can't afford the time costs here. I hope there's a fix > somewhere, but > > meanwhile I'm looking for another path - maybe Ubuntu itself (then > strip > > it down to Lubuntu?) or a Mint version. I need something that works. > > > > Any and all idea anyone has are most welcome! > > > > Tom > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human > soul." ~Joseph Addison > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Tom Cloyd, MS MA LMHC (WA) > Psychotherapist (psychological trauma, dissociative disorders) > Spokane, Washington, U.S.A: (435) 272-3332 > << t...@tomcloyd.com <mailto:t...@tomcloyd.com> >> (email) > << TomCloyd.com >> (website) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > >
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