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

[John Martin]

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From: John Martin <jam101 at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#562427: cryptsetup: Cannot
enter luks pass phrase with USB keyboard during boot
To: Christoph Anton Mitterer <christoph.anton.mitterer at physik.uni-muenchen.de>


On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer
<christoph.anton.mitterer at physik.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> Quoting John Martin <jam101 at gmail.com>:
>>
>> How do we make that right?
>
> Add the required modules to  /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
>
>> Were modules usbhid, hid, usbcore, nls_base in the "most" but lost
>> with the "blacklist usbkbd" that appeared in the strings of the
>> initrd.img?
>
> Don't think so.... this should just control loading of modules, not their
> inclusion.
>
> But I agree that they should be there if MODULES=most...
> Is there perhaps something in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume which
> overrides this?

,----[ cat /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume  ]
 RESUME=/dev/mapper/athene-swap
`----

Nothing under  /etc/initramfs-tools looks suspicious to me.

Now I try

# cat <<EOF >>/etc/initramfs-tools/modules
>
> usbhid
> hid
> usbcore
> nls_base
> EOF

,----[ sudo update-initramfs -u -v -k $(uname -r) | egrep
'usbhid|hid|usbcore|nls_base' ]
 Adding module /lib/modules/2.6.32-trunk-amd64/kernel/fs/nls/nls_base.ko
 Adding module /lib/modules/2.6.32-trunk-amd64/kernel/drivers/usb/core/usbcore.ko
 Adding module /lib/modules/2.6.32-trunk-amd64/kernel/drivers/hid/hid.ko
 Adding module /lib/modules/2.6.32-trunk-amd64/kernel/drivers/hid/usbhid/usbhid.ko
`----

Reboot but no joy.  Same as before.