Bug 5345

Summary:	Mageia 2, Beta 2, Unable to delete an encrypted partition using MCC
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Joe Da Silva <digital>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	fri, nic, rwobben
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Joe Da Silva 2012-04-11 07:50:05 CEST

Description of problem:
While upgrading from Mageia 1 to Mageia 2, Beta 2, I attempted to remove an encrypted partition but am unable to do this using the MCC (Mageia Control Center - Manage Local Disks).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia 2, Beta 2

How reproducible:
Failure to delete using install disk (during the install process).
Failure to delete partition after install (regular install using MCC).

Steps to Reproduce:
During the install process, you eventually get to the step asking how you want to configure your harddrive....

During a regular install, you can select MCC and then run "Local Disks, Manage disk partitions"....

1. "Please make a backup of your data first" -> select "continue"
2. With the mouse cursor, select the encrypted partition.
3. With the mouse, then choose Unmount.
4. With the mouse, then select Delete.

error message is "cryptsetup failed"

Joe Da Silva 2012-04-11 07:50:48 CEST

Summary: Mageia 2, Beta 2, Unable to delete an encrypted partition from MCC => Mageia 2, Beta 2, Unable to delete an encrypted partition using MCC

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:03:08 CEST

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 2 roelof Wobben 2013-01-03 08:38:23 CET

@joe : Is this bug still valid for Mageia 2 or Cauldron ?

Roelof

CC: (none) => r.wobben

Comment 3 Morgan Leijström 2013-12-28 14:37:14 CET

valid mga4b2, see also https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9731#c1
Editing an encrypted partition in LVM have never worked error free AFAIK :/

CC: (none) => fri
Hardware: i586 => All

Comment 4 Morgan Leijström 2013-12-28 14:43:42 CET

Workaround at (re)install time:
I usually end up making a small /boot, then rest of drive one partition encrypted used for LVM, and in that everything except boot.  = Higher security but also a unnesessary slowe system, if you only really need to encrypt /home or a part of /home...

Comment 5 Nic Baxter 2015-03-31 02:58:00 CEST

Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the reporter's distribution.

Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information.

Closing as OLD.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => nic
Resolution: (none) => OLD