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As some of you may know, there is bug in the installer of Lubuntu regarding full disk encryption with LVM. I have read at multiple places to use 

sudo swapoff --all

as a workaround. That does not work for me, instead of the common error message I get the following:

Autopartitioning using LVM failed because an error occurred while creating the volume group. Check /var/log/syslog or see virtual console 4 for the details.

So here is a part of /var/log/syslog that I find relevant for my problem: 

Nov  4 08:28:21 lubuntu ubiquity: /bin/autopartition-crypto: 292: /bin/autopartition-crypto: pvs: not found  
Nov  4 08:28:21 lubuntu ubiquity: /var/lib/partman/devices/=dev=sda  
Nov  4 08:28:21 lubuntu kernel: [  104.080652]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3  
Nov  4 08:28:21 lubuntu ubiquity: /bin/autopartition-crypto: 292:   /bin/autopartition-crypto: pvs: not found  
Nov  4 08:28:21 lubuntu kernel: [  104.555330]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3  
Nov  4 08:28:22 lubuntu partman: mke2fs 1.43.3 (04-Sep-2016)  
Nov  4 08:28:22 lubuntu partman-crypto: kernel entropy_avail: 977 bits  
Nov  4 08:28:22 lubuntu kernel: [  104.887497] NET: Registered protocol family 38  
Nov  4 08:28:29 lubuntu ubiquity: stat: cannot stat '/dev/lubuntu-vg'  
Nov  4 08:28:29 lubuntu ubiquity: : No such file or directory

I am not sure what is wrong, there seems to be some program missing. I am also going to try an installation off of the alternate installer. Can you please give my some suggestions how to fix the problem?

David Foerster
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It's an installer bug.

Choose the "Try Lubuntu" option from the boot menu so that you get a working desktop.

Choose "start menu" -> "system tools" -> "LXTerminal"

At the console prompt, type:

sudo apt-get install lvm2

Then run the installer icon from the desktop ("Install Lubuntu 16.10").

Clearly no-one tested any installation method that uses lvm.

PeteC
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  • Thanks for this. At this point, I'm inclined to just use the standard Ubuntu installer, which I'm sure is much more road-tested, and install LXDE as a last step. Is there any significant difference to the end product? – Jon Carter Jul 13 '17 at 21:24
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    "An error occurred while configuring encrypted volumes. The configuration has been aborted." I did all the steps, including swapoff. Lubuntu 17.04, that should be installed on VMware12. – codepleb Sep 30 '17 at 18:26
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OK, it seems to be a version related bug. Using the common 16.04. Lubuntu installer is working.

Torrintino
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