I've had the same problem - it appears to have been fixed since today. The system was rendered completely unbootable, forcing me to pass a init=/bin/bash to the grub kernel line and do a apt-get dist-upgrade from there. Now it appers to work - it did so before, however, and then broke again with no appearent reason. I already posted my problem on Usenet with MID <7p6r9dfp3...@mid.dfncis.de> in alt.os.linux.ubuntu under the subject "Karmic LUKS Cryptofs trouble" on 2009-12-20 15:38. I will repost it here:
----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<---- Hello group, I'm having the same problem with two computers running Karmic. It both has to do with the startup of LUKS devices. Sometimes (every 2nd time or so) it happens that appearently two services (cryptsetup and some other) are started at the same time, racing for terminal input. As usually one character goes to cryptsetup and the other goes to whatever, it is almost impossible to enter a password. I know this because sometimes (again, nondeterministically) I am prompted to enter my root-password to get a shell. When the shell opens I see exactly which characters are echoed (every 2nd one). This means, to get a ps ax I have to type "p?s? ?a?x?" where "?" can be any character (it goes to the other program, I guess cryptsetup in this case or maybe askpass). This is annoying as hell and I don't know why it happens. I'm guessing something about parallel init.d is screwed up there. Is there a way to disable it? Here's the output I'm getting: http://bildrian.de/n/b/87049ab6a0a55306.jpg Anyone knows what could be the problem? Regards, Johannes -- Upgrade to Karmic completely broke password prompt for cryptdisks at boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/475293 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
