[Mageia-dev] System startup fails with crypted partitions

[Olivier Thauvin]

* Colin Guthrie (mageia at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 16/07/12 07:32 did gyre and gimble:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Yesterday evening I did reboot my computer and the system was unable to
> > boot until I disabled my crypted partition (my /home) in /etc/crypttab.
> > 
> > Nothing asked me the key for the crypt partition, neither in graphical
> > mode neither in text mode.
> > 
> > [olivier at localhost ~]$ rpm -q systemd
> > systemd-186-1.mga3
> 
> Hmmm, interesting.
> 
> Have you booted with that systemd version before?

Probably not, it's hard to know since I use pm-{suspend,hibernate} to
move my laptop and I reboot only when the wake up fails.

> 
> What about booting with the latest plymouth? Do you use Plymouth? If so
> does booting without the "splash" kernel command line argument help here
> - i.e. do you see a text-based password request dialog.

I use plymouth: plymouth-0.8.5.1-1.mga3 (it seems it's the latest,
installed the July, 9).
Notice I got message "assert [...] != NULL failed" when I hit esc key
and a special character keep apparing like a key were pressed
permanently until I hit <esc> again.

I haven't see any password request in text mode.

The issue is the same in "failsafe mode" and iirc it does not have
the "splash" mode.

> How does the boot freeze? Does it just wait forever? I presume (as it's
> /home) that you do get out of the initrd OK and the running system
> starts to boot?

After waiting about 30 seconds, messages appear about unresolved dependencies
over /home.

In failsafe mode it ask for root password to enter in rescue mode.

I'll reboot this afternoon to check if initrd success or failed and
get more informations.

Regards.

> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Col
> 
> 
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Olivier Thauvin
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