Bug#751585: systemd: opens emergency shell after prompting for unnecessary dm-crypt passwords

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Sat Jun 14 15:27:36 BST 2014


Am 14.06.2014 16:04, schrieb Michael Gold:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 204-10
> Severity: critical
> 
> After installing systemd today and rebooting, I saw a few lines (not
> errors) about systemd-fsck on xfs filesystems, and then I was prompted
> for dm-crypt passwords for 4 disks that are not necessary to boot the
> system.  I pressed enter to bypass each prompt, and then saw I message
> that I'd be dropped to an emergency shell.  It took about a minute to
> open this shell each time (the shell died a few times while I was
> working).
> 
> The disks it had prompted about were marked 'noauto' in /etc/crypttab,
> and all had keyfiles available on the root filesystem (which is
> encrypted but had been successfully mounted at the time); so no prompts
> should have been shown.

Can you attach your /etc/fstab and /etc/crypttab please.

> I've marked this as critical because I was unable to use the system
> until switching back to sysvinit.  Unfortunately, no logs of the event
> seem to be available now, so it's not clear why systemd considered there
> to be an emergency.

Does this happen on every boot i.e. can you reproduce the error reliably?

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