Hi, Short version: does anybody use cryptsetup and insserv at the same time successfully?
I recently re-installed Debian on my laptop because I wanted to repartition my hard drive and use an encrypted filesystem for /home. Everything went quite smooth, but after installing and configuring insserv, I am sometimes unable to enter the passphrase needed for mounting my encrypted /home. Insserv parallelizes the boot sequence which results in a nice speed gain. However, the input prompt of /etc/init.d/cryptdisks is completely broken by that. I usually don't see the prompt at all, I can just see that the system sits idle, apparently waiting for me to enter the password. What makes this worse is that sometimes I cannot even enter the passphrase as the keys I type are echoed on the display and apparently do not go anywhere else. Until now, I have never been very patient and simply powered the system of at this point. I don't know whether cryptsetup's CRYPTDISKS_TIMEOUT would kick in in these situations, but I have lowered its value to 30 seconds and will try that on next boot. Because of #495505 I am not to optimistic, though. Which package should receive the bug report, insserv or cryptsetup? I guess this is insserv's fault, but I am not sure. J. -- I am no longer prepared to give you the benefit of the doubt. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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