[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#507722: Bug#507722: cryptsetup: unable to enter passphrase at boot time

[Jochen Schulz]

Jonas Meurer:
> 
> So your boot process hangs after bootlogd is started, correct? Can you
> force the boot process to continue with <ctrl>+<c>?

It doesn't really hang, it's just that cryptsetup waits for me to enter
the passphrase without showing the prompt. If I enter the passphrase and
press Enter, booting continues normally.

What I can see when booting:

... kernel messages ...
INIT: version 2.86 booting
Using shell-style concurrent boot in runlevel S.
Starting hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...
... kernel messages ...
done.
Starting boot logger: bootlogdSetting the system clock.
_

At the last line, the cursor is blinking and cryptsetup is waiting for
me to enter the passphrase.

> Did you already try to remove bootlogd and see whether that fixes your
> boot process?

Yes, I didn't expect it to change anything but disabling bootlogd in
/etc/default/bootlogd makes the passphrase promopt visible again.

>> I wish I could. What is strange is that on another new installation
>> (different hardware) with the same setup I don't have the problem at
>> all.

I can reproduce the problem on this system as well by enabling bootlogd.

J.
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