[03:43] <nuclearbob> can anybody give me some tips on using a preseed to overwrite an lvm installation with another lvm installation?
[03:48] <nuclearbob> I realize this isn't the ideal time of day for this
[11:48] <nuclearbob> I'm having some issues trying to preseed an lvm install on a machine that already has a system installed using lvm, if anyone can help me take a look at that, I'd appreciate it
[11:49] <xnox> nuclearbob: is that using desktop or d-i?
[11:50] <xnox> it should be possible to preseed proper wipe-and-install with lvm & d-i. Not so sure about ubiquity. What preseed are you currently using, and do you have debug/devel log on which question it gets stuck?
[11:51] <xnox> You do want:
[11:51] <xnox> d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
[11:51] <xnox> d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true
[11:51] <xnox> d-i partman-lvm/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
[11:52] <xnox> + select normal auto parititioning using lvm.
[11:53] <xnox> nuclearbob: is that for utah? if you point me to a branch I can work/debug it.
[11:54] <nuclearbob> xnox: it is for utah, the branch is lp:~nuclearbob/utah/lvm-experimental
[11:54] <nuclearbob> xnox: I can give you a further description of a couple places I get tripped up, all with d-i, ubiquity hasn't really gotten off the ground yet, would you rather have that here, email, something else?
[11:56] <xnox> nuclearbob: here is fine + pastebin. Or you can drop an email to ubuntu-installer@lists.ubuntu.com, unless private then can email me direct.
[11:56] <xnox> whichever =)
[11:58] <nuclearbob> xnox: if I install on a disk with no lvm, things seem to work fine.  If I install on a disk that already has lvm, I need to add a couple more options, it seems like I need partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm, and partman-lvm/confirm
[11:58] <nuclearbob> xnox: once I add those two, I need partman-auto/automatically_partition
[11:59] <nuclearbob> and once I add that, I need partman-auto/select_disk, but if I set that to auto or /dev/sda, the installer starts looping, complaning about ntfs
[12:00] <nuclearbob> I see this over and over:
[12:01] <nuclearbob> http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/5801286/
[12:02] <nuclearbob> then it'll loop around like this for a while:
[12:02] <nuclearbob> http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/5801297/
[12:02] <xnox> nuclearbob: it would be nice to see full log, from beginning to end. and the dump of the preseed file used.
[12:03] <nuclearbob> xnox: that'll be a bit long, but I'll send that shortly
[12:03] <xnox> nuclearbob: you do want d-i partman-lvm/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true , otherwise it might refuse to remove old lvm.
[12:04] <nuclearbob> xnox: okay.  I had that in for a while, but it didn't seem work any more or less when I took it out.  I'll add it back :)
[12:06] <xnox> nuclearbob: how can i run utah twice from that branch to do lvm provisioning?
[12:07] <nuclearbob> xnox: unfortunately, it only currently works on a physical machine using cobbler
[12:07] <nuclearbob> xnox: if you have access to the magners lab, I can tell you how to run it there
[12:07] <nuclearbob> actually, I guess a vm using cobbler would work, but I haven't really played with setting that up yet
[12:08] <xnox> nuclearbob: i don't have cobbler / spare machines on my network at the moment. I don't think i have magners lab access.
[12:08] <xnox> nuclearbob: but if you give me full logs & preseed (of well both the first and subsequent install), I should be able to reproduce the preseed bug.
[12:09] <nuclearbob> xnox: I can have a second install log and a preseed for you in a few minutes, but I'll have to back and redo the first, that'll take a little longer
[12:09] <xnox> there was a bug with wiping stale lvms that I did fix in precise-updates & quantal+
[12:10] <nuclearbob> okay, I may just be on old precise, I'll check
[12:11] <xnox> so it should all just work (tm)
[12:12] <nuclearbob> xnox: preseed: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/5801323/
[12:12] <xnox> nuclearbob: bump the copyright year ;-)
[12:12] <nuclearbob> xnox: file a bug report :p
[12:13] <nuclearbob> I'll make an mp for that later
[12:13] <nuclearbob> we probably need it in a lot of places
[12:16] <xnox> nuclearbob: so, thanks for that preseed. I'll play around with it. I might not get to it today though.
[12:17] <nuclearbob> xnox: thanks.  I'll get you the rest of the stuff as well, no rush
[19:51] <skaet> hiya,  help please.   For Alpha 1 tomorrow,  I've collected the installer bugs from 13.04 that aren't fixed and added them https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/Alpha1/CommonInfrastructure,   are there others that folks feel are important to be added?
[21:41] <GrueMaster> Wow, the omap4 black screen bug is back?
[21:41] <GrueMaster> Thought we fixed that back in Natty.