[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#535801: cryptsetup: root-device is changed wrongly

[Theo Cabrerizo Diem]

Package: cryptsetup
Version: 2:1.0.7~rc1-1
Severity: normal

I can confirm that the same happened to me also, leaving my system unbootable.
As suggested by Mourad De Clerck, removing the following line from /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot solved the issue :

echo "ROOT=$NEWROOT" >> /conf/param.conf

my setup here :

/dev/sdb1 ntfs
/dev/sdb2 ext3 /boot
/dev/sdb3 luks with lvm inside it (/dev/mapper/wd_usb)
/dev/mapper/wd_usb-root ext3 /
/dev/mapper/wd_usb-swap swap
/dev/mapper/wd_usb-home ext3 /home

And the behavior is the same as described by others, trying to mount the wd_usb-swap as /root, which is clearly wrong.

Let me know if there's anything that I can provide to help with this issue.

Cheers,

Theo


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers sid
  APT policy: (1001, 'sid'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cryptsetup depends on:
ii  dmsetup                      2:1.02.30-3 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libc6                        2.9-19      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1           2:1.02.30-3 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libpopt0                     1.14-4      lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libuuid1                     1.41.7-1    Universally Unique ID library

cryptsetup recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cryptsetup suggests:
ii  dosfstools                    3.0.3-1    utilities for making and checking 
ii  initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.93.3     tools for generating an initramfs
ii  udev                          0.141-1    /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

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