[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#779612: systemd-sysv,cryptsetup: systemd-sysv, cryptsetup should recommend plymouth; without plymouth cryptsetup prompts are unusable

[Gordon Morehouse]

Package: systemd-sysv,cryptsetup
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Booting in jessie is currently nearly impossible with multiple cryptsetup
volumes which are mounted at boot time.  systemd spews messages over the
prompt and there's a 90-second timeout while typing blind.  Please see
the bug report[1] and discussion on debian-qa[2].

The bug appears to be "fixed" by installing plymouth, so it's proposed that
systemd-sysv and cryptsetup should at least recommend plymouth.

This is a major usability problem for users with multiple required
cryptsetup volumes, e.g. on /var and /usr.  I do not believe jessie should
ship as "stable" with it unresolved.

1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768314 
2. https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2015/02/msg00051.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)