[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#481104: Bug#481104: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] /usr/sbin/update-initramfs: update-initramfs edits /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/cryptroot

[Jonas Meurer]

hey,

On 08/06/2010 Michael Prokop wrote:
> reassign 481104 cryptsetup

i don't agree that this bug belongs to cryptsetup.

> * maximilian attems <max at stro.at> [Don Jul 10, 2008 at 11:57:52 +0200]:
> > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:51:22PM +0300, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote:
> 
> > > Not to my surprise, you were right :-)
> 
> > > I just deleted the /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/cryptroot file, and run
> > > again update-initramfs -u. Laptop boots fine. Btw, I already had
> > > /etc/crypttab correctly configured, so it seems that the cryptroot file
> > > was redundant.
> 
> > > So, probably the bug has to be closed since it was a consequence of a
> > > wrong practice, if I got it right.
> 
> > no you found an interesting conrner case, wont invest too much time
> > now before release on it, but that needs to be rethought afterwards.
> 
> > keeping open and thanks to David for the bug chase!! :)
> 
> > thanks for the report!
> 
> I'm reassigning this bugreport to cryptsetup, as initramfs-tools
> doesn't provide any crypt* stuff any longer. AFAICS this issue is
> resolved, though it would be great if cryptsetup packagers could
> take a closer look at it before closing it.

mh, strange. it seems like mkinitramfs pastes the output of
/conf/conf.d/cryptroot (in initramfs) to either of 
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf.d/cryptroot and
$CONFDIR/conf.d/cryptroot if they exist. even touching them as empty
files leads to the described issue.

i didn't identify the relevant code yet, sh -x mkinitramfs didn't give
any further information.

i suggest to close the bugreport anyway, as shipping mkinitramfs
cryptroot configuration in $CONFDIR/conf.d/cryptroot was not supported
in the first place.

to my knowledge the cryptroot-hook script is not the problem here. the
problematic code should be in mkinitramfs itself.

greetings,
 jonas
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