[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#576186: Bug#576186: cryptsetup: Setting up crypto device on Startup takes too long w/ ext3

[Jonas Meurer]

On 08/07/2010 Jonas Meurer wrote:
> > Last line before prompting for passphrase is like: 
> > cryptsetup -c -aes-... --key-file=- create cryptofs /dev/sda3
> > After waiting 50 secs, first line is:
> > '[' -z /lib/cryptsetup/checks/vol_id ']'
> 
> this verifies, that the delay is caused by cryptsetup binary, not by
> anything else from the initscript. you could check the unlocking
> by booting into single user runlevel (init=1), and manually invoking
> 
> # cryptsetup -c aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 create cryptofs /dev/sda3
> 
> simply let the unlocking process fail three times (wrong passphrase),
> and the boot process will stop at runlevel 1 with an emergency shell.
> there you can test the manual unlocking of encrypted device.
> 
> if this works, and the delay is reproducible at the emergency shell,
> please also provide output of 'cryptsetup --debug -c aes-... create ...'

any news?

greetings,
 jonas
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