l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > Hey, > > Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org> skribis: > >> Yeah, but even using a non-required-for-boot encrypted filesystem (i.e. not >> an encrypted root, just encrypted home) doesn't work. As soon as I add >> "mount? #t" it hangs. >> >> I'm now using a workaround where it's specified using "mount? #f" and I >> mount it using a autorun script in my homedir (using "mount /x"). That works >> fine. >> >> You're using an encrypted home, right? Does it work for you? > > Yes. My configuration looks like this: > > (operating-system > ;; … > (mapped-devices (list (mapped-device > (source (uuid > "cb67fc72-0d54-4c88-9d4b-b225f30b0f44")) > (target "home") > (type luks-device-mapping)))) > > (file-systems (cons* (file-system > (device "root") > (title 'label) > (mount-point "/") > (type "ext3")) > (file-system > (device "/dev/mapper/home") > (mount-point "/home") > (type "ext3")) > %base-file-systems))) > > What about yours? > >> It's always very broken when I try - both guix reconfigure and sometimes the >> next boot process (!) hang. > > Earlier you wrote: > >> system reconfigure hangs at >> >> guix system: shepherd: Removing service 'file-system-/x'... >> guix system: shepherd: Done. >> guix system: loading new services: file-system-/x... >> guix system: shepherd: Evaluating user expression (register-services >> (primitive-load "/gnu/s...")). > > At this point, shepherd loads and starts the service for file system /x, > which does what appears in ‘file-system-shepherd-service’ in (gnu > services base). Roughly, it runs fsck and then proceeds to mount /x. > > If you’re out of luck, fsck could take ages. Could it be what happened > here?
Or, as Leo suggests, it could be that shepherd starts the device-mapping service, which runs “cryptsetup luksOpen”, which never completes because you don’t know it’s waiting for you to enter a passphrase. Ludo’.
