[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#495509: Bug#495509: cryptsetup: timeout option does not work anymore

[David Härdeman]

On Mon, August 18, 2008 11:10, Alexander Heinlein wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:11:54AM +0200, David Härdeman wrote:
>> the problem is that some of the changes we've committed during the last
>> couple of weeks in order to support usplash/splashy/remote shells/etc
>> make
>> it very hard to support timeouts. I'm not sure if we'll be able to readd
>> support for it... :(
>
> Oh, too bad :(
>
> Disabling timeouts per default through config and placing a hint about
> occuring issues when reenabling it isn't an option?

Well, the problem is that the "issue" is most of the time that there is no
timeout at all...

> Would be nice if my system will boot even if there is nobody who enters
> the password for auto mounted, non essential partitions.

If they aren't essential, then a workaround for now would be to mark them
"noauto" and use the opposite approach compared to what you're used to
doing (i.e. when someone is present, he/she can manually mount the extra
volumes).

-- 
David Härdeman