Hi Tomas, thanks for taking care of the bugreport.
Am 30.12.2014 um 19:27 schrieb Tomas Pospisek: > Hello Jonas & Kjetil, > > (context: I'm reading through release-notes bug reports). > > I'm not sure I understand what you are expecting as a result by > cloning/reassigning this to the release notes - > > Let me try to understand the problem: > > * if there's an encrypted partition, then systemd, who aparently would be > responsible to do so will not prompt for the password, if plymouth is > not installed. > > Is my understanding of the problem correct? Yes. Actually, it is even more complicated, but your understanding is correct: Systemd includes its own dm-crypt/cryptsetup device unlocking functions. With systemd as init system, it processes all dm-crypt encrypted devices that shall be unlocked during the boot process and *after* initramfs. I don't know systemd, but from the bugreports I learned that it apparently doesn't implement a proper mechanism to prompt for user input itself. Instead it relies on plymouth doing that task. As a result, systemd without plymouth doesn't wait for user input at unlocking dm-crypt devices but instead continues to print boot logging output to the console. > So I think the right thing to do would be, that during the upgrade the > systemd postinstallation should check whether there are some mounted > partitions that are crypted and then recommend to install plymouth. Do > you concur? I would even go futher and say that systemd should recommend plymouth in any case. Still, if it's only recommended and not a hard dependency, the discovered behaviour should be documented in the release notes in my eyes. > Otherwise, should the release-notes recommend to install plymouth to the > user if s/he has crypted partitions that should get mounted during boot? Yes, that's what needs to be done at least. > Ideally IMHO the release notes should also explain the problem in > sufficient technical detail to allow the user to take his own steps to > further understand the problem and to choose an alternative solution if > he deems so. > > Optimally you could suggest a wording? Unfortunately I've not enough knowledge about systemd to propose a wording. But feel free to use anything I wrote in the bugreport for a draft. Cheers, jonas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
