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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 09.03.2015 um 08:48 schrieb Julien Cristau:
> On Sun, Mar  8, 2015 at 12:45:28 +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> 
>> Hi Gordon,
>>
>> thanks for the bugreport. I escalate this bugreport to the
>> debian-release team, asking for advice: would you accept another
>> cryptsetup upload targeted to jessie in order to add 'plymouth' to the
>> list of recommended packages?
>>
>> Am 03.03.2015 um 03:43 schrieb Gordon Morehouse:
>>> 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.
>>
>> I agree that plymouth should be pulled in per default on jessie
>> installations with systemd and cryptsetup. While I don't know nothing
>> about systemd without plymouth, when cryptsetup comes into play,
>> plymouth is critical for the interactive password prompt at boot.
>>
>> Therefore I agree with the bug submitter, that cryptsetup in jessie
>> should recommend plymouth.
>>
> Does a recommend help at all, when plymouth doesn't do anything without
> a cmdline change?

As pointed out, a recommends does not really help for new installs,
since they have no effect when installing the base system.

Also, what Julien said.

Therefor, I wonder if this bug report is useful in this form and if
there's a point, keeping it open.


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