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installation failed in user-setup-encrypted-swap with encrypted home and no swap: cannot stat `/etc/crypttab' : No such file or directory

Bug #991139 reported by Cipi on 2012-04-29

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #989279: Ubiquity fails to create encrypted home directory when no swap if configured. Edit Remove

This bug affects 9 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Xubuntu 12.4 LTS. I can`t create a encrypted home directory from the beginning of install. I get: ubi-usersetup failed with exit code 1.
This is upon fresh install from USB, I also try to install from CD Xubuntu 12.04 LTS AMD64, same thing in both cases.
My hardware is: AMD64
This is the error that I get in the syslog:

Apr 29 13:40:32 xubuntu kernel: [372.247596] Intel AES-NI instructions are not detected.
Apr 29 13:40:33 xubuntu ubiquity: INFO: You do not currently have any swap space defined.
Apr 29 13:40:33 xubuntu ubiquity:
Apr 29 13:40:33 xubuntu ubiquity: You can create a swap file by doing:
Apr 29 13:40:33 xubuntu ubiquity: $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile count=8231136
Apr 29 13:40:33 xubuntu ubiquity: $ sudo mkswap /swapfile
Apr 29 13:40:33 xubuntu ubiquity: $ sudo swapon /swapfile
Apr 29 13:40:33 xubuntu ubiquity:
Apr 29 13:40:33 xubuntu ubiquity: And then re-run /usr/bin/ecryptfs-setup-swap
Apr 29 13:40:33 xubuntu ubiquity:
Apr 29 13:40:33 xubuntu ubiquity: /usr/share/ubiquity/user-setup-encrypted-swap: 60: /usr/share/ubiquity/user-setup-encrypted-swap: cannot open /etc/crypttab: No such file
Apr 29 13:40:33 xubuntu ubiquity: cp:
Apr 29 13:40:33 xubuntu ubiquity: cannot stat `/etc/crypttab'
Apr 29 13:40:33 xubuntu ubiquity: : No such file or directory
Apr 29 13:40:33 xubuntu ubiquity:
Apr 29 13:40:33 xubuntu ubiquity[5128]: debconffilter_done: ubi-usersetup (current: ubi-usersetup)
Apr 29 13:40:33 xubuntu ubiquity[5128]: dbfilter_handle_status: ('ubi-usersetup', 1)

P.S. I don`t need a swap file, I got 5.GB RAM and the previous version of Xubuntu has worked fine without swap.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-04-30:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) on 2012-04-30

summary:	- ubi-usersetup failed with exit code 1. (When trying to install with - encrypted home dir) + installation failed with encrypted home and no swap
summary:	- installation failed with encrypted home and no swap + installation failed with encrypted home and no swap: cannot stat + `/etc/crypttab' : No such file or directory
summary:	- installation failed with encrypted home and no swap: cannot stat - `/etc/crypttab' : No such file or directory + installation failed in user-setup-encrypted-swap with encrypted home and + no swap: cannot stat `/etc/crypttab' : No such file or directory

Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) on 2012-04-30

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Barney (barneys) wrote on 2012-04-30:

Also on Ubuntu 12.04 amd64 installation. Exactly same syslog output except replace xubuntu with ubuntu.

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Alex Wauck (awauck) wrote on 2012-06-02:

I'm pretty sure this is a duplicate of bug 989279.

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Dennis R (tech-rardin) wrote on 2012-06-03:

I get this error when doing an install, using manual partitioning, that creates a 4-gig swap partition, as well as a / and a /home. Bug 989279 specifies "with no swap partition," so at least in my case the two are not the same.

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Geb (gebhard-moser) wrote on 2012-06-26:

- occured in 64 bit and 32 bit version !
- with and without swap partition (error message is confusing) !

Generating manually a user with encrypted home paritition after installation (adduser --encrypt-home username) worked.

Lack of quality for a LTS version...

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2012-07-13:

Could the people reporting that they see this *with* a swap partition please file a separate bug and attach logs? Even if they happen to have similar symptoms, the cause of that problem is not going to be the same as the cause of this problem - we'll need to diagnose it separately.