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

2015-03-30 Thread Gordon Morehouse
On 03/25/2015 10:24 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Gordon, can you try systemd v219 from experimental? It has some tricks to suppress output from other jobs while a password prompt is running. I dunno how well that works, though so having someone with such a setup test this would be appreciated. Hi

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

2015-03-25 Thread Gordon Morehouse
On 03/25/2015 09:29 AM, Jonas Meurer wrote: [snip] > Seems like there's some more discussion needed in order to fix the reported bug: a) do we want cryptsetup to recommend plymouth? this way at least for manual installation of cryptsetup, plymouth would be pulled in, fixing destroyed nas

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

2015-03-20 Thread Gordon Morehouse
On 03/19/2015 06:58 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > As pointed out, a recommends does not really help for new installs, > since they have no effect when installing the base system. A recommends at least provides users a pointer towards fixing a really nasty problem (which they shouldn't even have, bu

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

2015-03-08 Thread Gordon Morehouse
On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 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 pac

Bug#779612: recommends, suggest, and which packages

2015-03-08 Thread Gordon Morehouse
Hi folks, My mention of creating Bug#779612 was intended to steer discussion of a packaging-related "fix" for jessie into that bug and out of this bug. ;) It's currently being discussed there[1] and has been escalated to the Debian release list. 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi

Bug#768314: proposed 'recommend' as suggested on debian-qa

2015-03-04 Thread Gordon Morehouse
On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 17:56:52 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > A recommends in systemd-sysv doesn't help on new installations, since > during debootstrap, recommends are not considered. I personally believe it should be a dependency, but I spoke with some people who are more involved in Debian than

Bug#768314: proposed 'recommend' as suggested on debian-qa

2015-03-04 Thread Gordon Morehouse
I've created Bug#779612 [1] to propose that 'systemd-sysv' and 'cryptsetup' recommend 'plymouth' in Jessie. There is related discussion in debian-qa[2]. 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=779612 2. https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2015/02/msg00051.html ___

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

2015-03-02 Thread Gordon Morehouse
Package: systemd-sysv,cryptsetup Severity: important Dear Maintainer, 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 r

Bug#768314: systemd: encrypted disk passphrase prompt nearly unusable

2015-02-19 Thread Gordon Morehouse
Package: systemd Version: 215-11 Followup-For: Bug #768314 Dear Maintainer, This renders systems with needed partitions (e.g. /var, /usr) on encrypted volumes near-totally unusable, especially if there are multiple partitions. I updated recently and the UI changed again. If anything, it's WORSE

Bug#768314: cryptsetup: Passphrase prompt rolls by without stopping

2015-01-23 Thread Gordon Morehouse
Corrections on my above update, apologies: On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:35:09 -0800, Gordon Morehouse wrote: > What I expect to happen: > > 1. The system should STOP and WAIT for a password for any encrypted volume > which is marked as critical to boot (I had debconf ask me which of my