[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#544773: Bug#544773: Update to cryptsetup 2:1.0.7-2 breaks booting

[Jonas Meurer]

hey,

On 02/09/2009 Paul Millar wrote:
> After upgrading a few packages (listed below) I discovered my laptop was unable to boot.  The laptop 
> uses a Luks partition with LVM (this was using a standard guided partitioning option back when I was 
> installing Debian).  The boot fails at around the same time I would normally be prompted for the 
> passphrase to unlock the Luks partition.
> 
> One (or more) of the upgraded packages triggered a rebuild of the initrd.  Suspecting that this 
> might be the cause of the problem, I tried adjusting the boot process.  Using grub's built-in 
> editor, I changed the initrd from the usual value to the backup copy (which has the filename with 
> ".bak" appended).  When booting from the backup copy of the initrd the computer booted without any 
> problem.
> 
> I then took the two initrd images, unpacked them and compared their contents.  There was a number of 
> differences, but the most noticable change was that the file:
> 
> conf/conf.d/cryptroot
> 
> that was present in the backup initrd was missing in the new initrd.  This file contained 
> cryptographic options for establishing the LVM ontop of the Luks partition.  I've copied the 
> contents here:
> 
> target=sdb2_crypt,source=/dev/sda2,key=none,rootdev,lvm=vedrfolnir-root
> target=sdb2_crypt,source=/dev/sda2,key=none,lvm=vedrfolnir-swap_1
> 
> Suspecting that the absence of this file was causing the problem, I copied the missing 
> conf/conf.d/cryptroot file into the new initrd's contents and repacked the initrd file.  Booting off 
> this modified version of new initrd was successful.
> 
> Therefore, I conclude that the laptop was unable to boot due to the missing conf/conf.d/cryptroot 
> file in the initrd.

it seems like the initramfs generation process is broken. unfortunately
i'm unable to reproduce the bug on several different setups. please run
the following command:

# sh -x mkinitramfs -o /tmp/initramfs 2>/tmp/initramfs.log

and send /tmp/initramfs.log to the bugreport.

greetings,
 jonas
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