Nixos 22.05 GUI installer's manual partition creation is ... broken

[svalaskevicius]

Describe the bug

Nixos 22.05 GUI installer's manual partition creation is ... broken.

When trying to clear disk create partition setup:
LUKS -> LVM -> (root + swap)

it crashes just after creating a VG.

If the partition has been pre-created (e.g. via gparted) it doesnt crash, but doesnt give any way to create the actual root + swap partitions - all buttons are grey.

[vlinkz]

I found some upstream issues mentioning similar. Do these bugs match the issues you were facing?
LVM + LUKS: calamares/calamares#1847
LVM unmounting: calamares/calamares#1920
I'll look more into the issue and get back to you

[svalaskevicius]

thanks, I just went with fully automated setup, so wont be reproducing this as I have it all running. sad though I couldnt set my partitions up as I wanted.. so it's more to fix for other ppl

[svalaskevicius]

btw to answer your question - the first link seems to describe the same scenario, so it does look like a good match. I haven't seen any logs though, just that the installer would be gone after that step, and I restarted the process a few times before resorting to the automatic partition setup.

not sure about the 2nd link.

[Katherine1]

Update based on 23.05:

It appears this is still an issue, and it is not tied to LUKS. I have found that attempting to use the manual partition option to create an LVM partition and then set up a Volume Group on it causes a crash regardless of if the LVM partition is encrypted or not.

[samgarmany]

thanks, I just went with fully automated setup, so wont be reproducing this as I have it all running. sad though I couldnt set my partitions up as I wanted.. so it's more to fix for other ppl

I just encountered the same issue, this thread didn’t really get much notice though so what installer did you end up using?

[Jacoby6000]

I can confirm that this is still an issue. Struggling to get nixos running with the partitioning scheme I want because of it.

PRETTY_NAME="NixOS 23.11 (Tapir)"
BUILD_ID="23.11.7313.9d29cd266ceb"

I was able to work around the issue by manually partitioning on the CLI, restarting the installer, then editing each of the partitions within the installer to add mountpoints and flags.

[ram-on]

I also confirm that the installer is crashing every time I try to create a "new volume group" over an LVM partition.

BUILD_ID="24.05.1503.752c634c09ce"