[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#720340: Bug#720340: cryptsetup: Encrypted LVM with root partition: Stopping crypto disk at shutdown fails

[Ralf Jung]

Hi,

> You're right. It's impossible to close the dm-crypt mapping for
> encrpyted root during shutdown process as the root device would need to
> be unmounted beforehand.
> 
> There's no easy solution to fix this instead of using a initramfs which
> is executed just after root device has been unmounted. To my knowledge,
> this is not implemented for sysvinit shutdown process in Debian yet.
> Tagging the bug as wontfix for that reason.

Okay.

I've since then switched to systemd, and now shutdown is so fast that I
have no chance to see any error messages...

Kind regards
Ralf