[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#586704: Bug#586704: cryptsetup: unbootable root on luks encrypted LVM volume - stops after accepting pass phrase

[Jonas Meurer]

hey,

On 21/06/2010 Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> writes:
> 
> >  bjorn at nemi:/tmp$ diff -qarN good bad
> >  Files good/lib/cryptsetup/askpass and bad/lib/cryptsetup/askpass differ
> >  Files good/sbin/cryptsetup and bad/sbin/cryptsetup differ
> >  Files good/scripts/local-top/cryptroot and bad/scripts/local-top/cryptroot differ
> >
> > Which means that the difference must be in one of these three files.
> > Most of this seems innocent, as there is no /bin/plymouth, but I'm
> > wondering a bit about the last hunch here, what does it do?:
> 
> Whatever it is, it is obviously OK.
> 
> Since I'm booting a lot anyway tonight, I just tried replacing these
> three files one by one to see which one makes a difference.  And I
> assume you will not be surprised when I say that it is sbin/cryptsetup.
> 
> Replacing sbin/cryptsetup with the 2:1.1.0-2.1 version, while keeping
> both scripts/local-top/cryptroot and lib/cryptsetup/askpass from
> 2:1.1.2-1, creates a working initramfs.

thanks for the debugging, it saved me a lot of work.

> But I have no clue why it isn't working.  And hints on debugging that?

yes, adding --debug to the commandline options of cryptsetup in
initramfs would be a good start. see the attached patch.

greetings,
 jonas
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