[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#740760: Bug#740760: systemd: timeout parameters in crypttab is ignored

[Michael Stapelberg]

Hi Pipes,

Pipes <pipex07 at yahoo.it> writes:

> 2014-03-08 22:30 GMT+01:00 Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg at debian.org>:
>> When you say “the timeout of 10 seconds doesn't work”, what does that
>> mean specifically? Note that the timout specified via timeout= is for
>> the password prompt, not for the device. When looking at the code in
>> src/cryptsetup/cryptsetup.c and cryptsetup-generator.c, I don’t think
>> it’s getting ignored.
>
> Hi Michael
> on the password's prompt, I don't put password  & I don't press
> "enter" , I wait indefinitely.
>
> This occurs  on the pc's boot and on the resume of pc after suspend to
> disk,.
I tried to reproduce this by manually starting systemd-cryptsetup with
timeout=10 on a loop device and the timeout works just fine.

I am getting the feeling like you are confusing systemd with your
initramdisk. Can you please provide a foto of the screen you are seeing
when you are prompted to enter your password?

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Best regards,
Michael