On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 15:23 +0200, Winfried Tilanus wrote:
> On 06/12/2010 01:28 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > I don't think this is fixable.  Since these partitions are encrypted we
> > cannot read the filesystem label or UUID before they are mounted.
> 
> If this isn't fixable, the script should not fail (leaving the system in
> an inconsistent state) but warn it can't use UUID's or labels on some
> file systems, including the warning that the system might not boot
> correctly.

It does not leave the system in an inconsistent state.  You need to
reconfigure linux-base and answer the questions differently.

It is really a problem of the loop-aes package that it changes the
semantics of the fstab type and options.

> I am happy to switch to dm-crypt if somebody can help me to setup
> dm-crypt with the following characteristics:
> - master key gpg encrypted, decryptable with multiple private gpg keys
> - gpg private keys stored on gpg card, no storage of gpg private keys on
> disk
> - mounting of volumes early during boot
> Until I know how to do that with dm-crypt, I stay with loop-aes.

I expect that cryptsetup supports this.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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