Bug#764555: systemd: cryptsetup password overwritten/hidden by status messages

[Nikolaus Rath]

Package: systemd
Version: 215-5+b1
Severity: normal

Hello,

I'm running Debian testing. After the last dist-upgrade, systemd has
started showing status messages during boot (sort of like sysvinit used
to do). This is certainly much prettier and more informative than the 
blank screen that I had before, but it has the unfortunate side-effect
of interfering with the cryptsetup password prompt. Sometimes the prompt
is several lines before the cursor with other messsages in between, and 
sometimes it's actually overwritten completely.

It'd be nice if status output would be suppressed/delayed while a
password prompty is active.


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  acl             2.2.52-2
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts     2.88dsf-53.4
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-2
ii  libaudit1       1:2.4-1
ii  libblkid1       2.20.1-5.11
ii  libc6           2.19-11
ii  libcap2         1:2.24-6
ii  libcap2-bin     1:2.24-6
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.6.6-1
ii  libgcrypt20     1.6.2-3
ii  libkmod2        18-3
ii  liblzma5        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.1
ii  libselinux1     2.3-2
ii  libsystemd0     215-5+b1
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-53.4
ii  udev            215-5+b1
ii  util-linux      2.20.1-5.11

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.8.8-1+b1
ii  libpam-systemd  215-5+b1

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-ui  <none>

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