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Re: Can't boot following re-install to LVM on LUKS [was: can't login via gdm]

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> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 03:46:51PM +0100, Morgan Read wrote:
> > On 11/08/2021 11:30 pm, David Christensen wrote:
> > > On 8/11/21 6:45 AM, Morgan Read wrote:
> > >> After having overcome a fairly fundamental bug with calamares as
> > >> described here:
> > >> [https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1564#issuecomment-846321
> 060][1]
> > >> And, (unnecessarily as it turned out) re-installed my system, I find
> > >> I'm unable to boot. ...
> > ...
> 
> Morgan,

Hi Andy, Thanks for coming back to me:-

> Possibly just don't use calamares. Use the standard Debian installer (d-i fo
> r
> short). Either the standard or expert installs offer you "ordinary" LVM or
> encrypted LVM with LUKS, made even more straightforward if you can choose

Actually, it was calamares that worked better than d-i - after failing with
Debian's calamares live install I followed the instructions for d-i here:
[https://www.blakehartshorn.com/installing-debian-on-existing-encrypted-lvm/][
2]
Blake Hartshorn seems to do a pretty good job of describing the problem and
solution.  However, it wasn't a solution for me because the install failed
repeatedly over the course of a couple of days (I was using 10.10 cf. BH using
10.4) - it wasn't until after I'd invested in a new flash drive and continued
with the same fails that I tried the PureOS live install, which worked.  You
can read a full discussion of my woes here:
[https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1564#issuecomment-898246354][3]
Essentially, d-i couldn't get passed either the base system dpkg install (most
usually base-passwd) or the following software install.  The dpkg warnings
were thrown on "parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 5 package 'dpkg'
: missing description field" with errors on the stateoverride file.

I would have filed bug reports but then Debian went to 11 and I figured
there'd be a new disk spun so it was all history anyway and I had a working
machine with PureOS.


> Also: the standard size for swap is now 1G and for a dedicated /tmp 
> partition of 2G.

That's interesting - so nothing for hibernation on swap?  I gave 8G to allow
for hibernation, but would happily give it away if I could?

Many thanks.

-- 
Morgan Read

UNITED KINGDOM
Em: <email:mstuffATreadDOTorgDOTnz>

Confused about DRM?
Get all the info you need at:
[<http://drm.info/>][4]

[1]: https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1564#issuecomment-846321060
[2]: https://www.blakehartshorn.com/installing-debian-on-existing-encrypted-lv
m/
[3]: https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1564#issuecomment-898246354
[4]: http://drm.info/

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can't login via gdm Morgan Read <mstuff@read.org.nz> - 2021-08-10 09:40 +0200
  Re: can't login via gdm IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-08-10 12:40 +0200
    Re: can't login via gdm Zoltán Herman <zoltanhbz@gmail.com> - 2021-08-10 13:00 +0200
  Can't boot following re-install to LVM on LUKS [was: can't login via gdm] Morgan Read <mstuff@read.org.nz> - 2021-08-11 16:10 +0200
    Re: Can't boot following re-install to LVM on LUKS [was: can't login  via gdm] David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-08-12 00:30 +0200
      Re: Can't boot following re-install to LVM on LUKS [was: can't login  via gdm] Morgan Read <morgan@read.nz> - 2021-08-16 16:50 +0200
        Re: Can't boot following re-install to LVM on LUKS [was: can't login  via gdm] "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-08-16 17:20 +0200
          Re: Can't boot following re-install to LVM on LUKS [was: can't login  via gdm] Morgan Read <mstuff@read.org.nz> - 2021-08-19 12:30 +0200

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