[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#382375: passphrase prompt gets drowned during initramfs

[martin f krafft]

Package: cryptsetup
Version: 2:1.0.3-3
Severity: normal

If cryptsetup mounts my encrypted root partition during initramfs
boot, it asks me for the luks passphrase. However, the kernel also
spits messages to the screen, so the prompt gets lost in a flood of
kernel output. This cause me to suspect some grave problem staring
at the screen and thinking the system has hung itself up, when all
it wanted was the passphrase.

Not sure how to fix that, actually...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (750, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (250, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages cryptsetup depends on:
ii  dmsetup                      2:1.02.07-1 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libc6                        2.3.6-18    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdevmapper1.02             2:1.02.07-1 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libgcrypt11                  1.2.2-3     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0                1.2-1       library for common error values an
ii  libpopt0                     1.10-3      lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libuuid1                     1.39-1      universally unique id library

cryptsetup recommends no packages.

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