[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#768314: Bug#768314: cryptsetup: Passphrase prompt rolls by without stopping (fwd)

[Tomas Pospisek]

Hello Kjetil,

On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:

> On Wednesday 7. January 2015 08.23.32 Tomas Pospisek wrote:
>
>> Kjetil and Christian is it possible for you to test this?
>
> As of now, I only have my laptop to test Jessie, which is something I 
> use every day, and so I'm anxious about putting such an important thing 
> as systemd from experimental on it. I've had the ambition to be able to
> easily set up virtual hosts for these occasions for a long time, but 
> alas, ENOTIME.

well, this is quite demotivating.

I am not concerned by the cryptosetup problem, I just wanted to help make 
the upgrade to the coming release better for people that are using crypted 
partitions.

But lets see, whether you're maybe able to contribute just a tiny bit -

Other than dropping the effort to try to improve on this particular 
problem I see two ways forward:

   a) you could test on your computer and I help you a bit
   b) I could test on my computer and you help me a bit
   a&b=c) we could both test

Let's see a)
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You can do:

     # apt-get install lxc
     # lxc-create -n test_VM -t debian -- -r jessie

This will create a VM under /var/lib/lxc/test_VM, that you
can easilly remove later with

     # rm -r /var/lib/lxc/test_VM

You can start the VM with:

     # lxc-start -n test_VM

If you go and do something different while lxc-create is downloading its 
stuff, the whole thing takes about 1 minute of your time.

After that you can set up the crypted device and install systemd from 
experimental inside and see whether it works.

Now way forward b)
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Could you tell me how to quickly set up a crypt device?


Please let me know what you think, greetings,
*t