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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 25.03.2015 um 18:04 schrieb Michael Biebl:

> New installation, when choosing the LVM+cryptsetup setup, will have a
> single cryptsetup prompt, which is run in the initramfs. So new
> installations are not affected, i.e, this only affects custom setups.
> 
> As for upgrades, we do document this issue in the release notes [1], and
> when upgrading, you'll still have sysvinit around as fallback (which can
> be chosen from grub from the extended menu). So your system is hardly
> unbootable.
> 
> As for adding plymouth to recommends: No matter if we add that to
> systemd to cryptsetup, it doesn't really solve the problem, as you'll
> need to add "splash" to the kernel command line.
> 

Gordon, can you try systemd v219 from experimental?
It has some tricks to suppress output from other jobs while a password
prompt is running. I dunno how well that works, though so having someone
with such a setup test this would be appreciated.

If v219 works reasonably well (without plymouth), we might consider
backporting those patches (depending on how invasive they are).

Michael

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