[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#492451: Bug#492451: Bug#492451: cryptsetup doesn't work with encrypted root and splashy in initramfs

[John Hughes]

Jonas Meurer wrote:
> On 27/07/2008 Jonas Meurer wrote:
>   
>> On 26/07/2008 John Hughes wrote:
>>     
>>> A simple patch to make askpass work with splashy is attached.
>>>       
>> thanks for your work on support for splashy with cryptsetup/askpass.
>>     
> I now discovered that the patch works without any issues for cryptroot
> (encrypted root fs), when askpass is invoked by the initramfs. Only for
> encrypted non-root filesystem which are started in the cryptsetup
> initscript, splashy freezes.
>   
Yow, sounds like a splashy bug.

I only have encrypted root on my machine.

I'll try and see if I can reproduce this in a qemu system.