Bug 1480839 - Unspecified error when disabling/enabling encryption of logical volume
Summary: Unspecified error when disabling/enabling encryption of logical volume
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 26
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-12 07:49 UTC by Alexander van Loon
Modified: 2018-05-29 11:29 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2018-05-29 11:29:38 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Configure volume group window (124.95 KB, image/png)
2017-08-12 07:49 UTC, Alexander van Loon
no flags Details
Error message details, from link in yellow bar (102.97 KB, image/png)
2017-08-12 07:50 UTC, Alexander van Loon
no flags Details

Description Alexander van Loon 2017-08-12 07:49:28 UTC
Created attachment 1312357 [details]
Configure volume group window

Description of problem:
By default the installer proposed some logical volumes for the installation of Fedora 26. By default it also suggests to encrypt those volumes. I disabled the encryption and confirmed the change, then changed my mind and tried to turn it back on. This gives a "device reconfiguration failed" error, asking for details just spawns an empty window with a close button. Anaconda didn't go down entirely and in the end I managed to work around this by disabling encryption just once on one logical volume, so that only the logical volume on my HDD which housed my /home directory was encrypted.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
The Anaconda version shipped with Fedora 26.

How reproducible:
I'm on a PC with both one SSD and one HDD and chose a clean installation, overwriting any existing OS's (just Fedora 24). I think this might be related to the issue. Open a LVM logical volume in the manual partitioning, disable encryption. Then open it again and enable encryption. Now receive the error message.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install on a PC with one HDD and one SSD, overwrite any existing OS's.
2. In manual partitioning, pick LVM and open a logical volume.
3. Disable encryption and apply the change.
4. Open it again, enable encryption and apply the change.
5. See the error message. 

Actual results:
"Device reconfiguration failed" error with unspecified details.

Expected results:
No crash, disabling and enabling shouldn't cause issues.

Additional info:
None.

Comment 1 Alexander van Loon 2017-08-12 07:50:09 UTC
Created attachment 1312358 [details]
Error message details, from link in yellow bar

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2018-05-03 08:58:39 UTC
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