[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#562427: cryptsetup: Cannot enter luks pass phrase with USB keyboard during boot

[John Martin]

> Have you included all the necessary modules in your initramfs image?

They should be there:

,----[ grep MODULES /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf ]
 # MODULES: [ most | netboot | dep | list ]
 MODULES=most
`----
,----[ man initramfs.conf|grep -A 5 MODULES ]
         MODULES
               Specifies the modules for the initramfs image.  The default set‐
               ting is most.

               most adds all the framebuffer, acpi,  file  system,  ide,  sata,
               scsi and usb drivers.
`----

Is there an easy way to see what is actually in the initrd.img?

I'm unsure what, if anything, to make of the following.

,----[ zcat /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-amd64|strings|egrep 'usb|hid|nls' ]
 # like usb/firewire disks to settle.
 hide
 hide_cursor
 saver_hide
 07070100000061000081ED0000000000000000000000014B1EF52E00009EC0000000FE0000000100000000000000000000001000000000lib/udev/usb_id
 usb_id
 ../extras/usb_id/usb_id.c
 usb_device
 usb_interface
 ID_BUS=usb
 usb-info
 Usage: usb_id [--usb-info] [--num-info] [--export] [--help] <devpath>
   --usb-info  use usb strings instead
 unable to access usb_interface device of '%s'
 unable to find parent 'usb' device of '%s'
 usb_id
 usb_interface
 usb-0:%s
 	SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", \
 	IMPORT{program}="usb_id --export $devpath"
 SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="descriptors"
 SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", KERNEL=="auer[0-9]*",	NAME="usb/%k"
 SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", KERNEL=="cpad[0-9]*",	NAME="usb/%k"
 SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", KERNEL=="dabusb[0-9]*",	NAME="usb/%k"
 SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", KERNEL=="hiddev[0-9]*",	NAME="usb/%k"
 SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", KERNEL=="legousbtower[0-9]*", NAME="usb/%k"
 SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", KERNEL=="lp[0-9]*",		NAME="usb/%k"
 SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", KERNEL=="iowarrior[0-9]*",	NAME="usb/%k"
 SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", \
 # usbfs-like devices
 SUBSYSTEM=="usb",
ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device",	NAME="bus/usb/$env{BUSNUM}/$env{DEVNUM}"
 SUBSYSTEM=="block", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb|ieee1394|mmc|pcmcia", GROUP="floppy"
 KERNEL=="legousbtower*",	MODE="0666"
 KERNEL=="lp[0-9]*", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb",		GROUP="lp"
 # the ones from the old usblp kernel module
 SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", \
 	ENV{ID_USB_INTERFACES}=="", IMPORT{program}="usb_id --export %p"
 SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", \
 # usbfs-like devices
 SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", \
 SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device",	GROUP="plugdev", \
 # Do not create symlinks for hidden subdevices.
 usbdevfs
 _rl_match_hidden_files
 match-hidden-files
 LV %s in VG %s is now hidden.
 modules.usbmap
 # usb module
 __mod_usb_device_table
 LV %s in VG %s is now hidden.
 __mod_usb_device_table
 blacklist usbmouse
 blacklist usbkbd
 blacklist pcwd_usb
 alias char-major-180-* usbcore
 #alias char-major-240-* usb-serial
 #alias bt-proto-6 hidp
 alias usbdevfs usbcore
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> btw: Is this really priority=important!?

Yes, I think so.  How would one with only a USB keyboard boot their
system after using cryptsetup to encrypt a partition including all other
than /boot?

-jam