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and subject line Re: Bug#764555: systemd: cryptsetup password
overwritten/hidden by status messages
has caused the Debian Bug report #764555,
regarding systemd-sysv,cryptsetup: systemd-sysv, cryptsetup should recommend
plymouth; without plymouth cryptsetup prompts are unusable
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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 report[1] and discussion on debian-qa[2].
The bug appears to be "fixed" by installing plymouth, so it's proposed that
systemd-sysv and cryptsetup should at least recommend plymouth.
This is a major usability problem for users with multiple required
cryptsetup volumes, e.g. on /var and /usr. I do not believe jessie should
ship as "stable" with it unresolved.
1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768314
2. https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2015/02/msg00051.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 18:39:11 -0700 Nikolaus Rath <nikol...@rath.org> wrote:
> On 10/08/2014 06:17 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Am 09.10.2014 um 02:51 schrieb Nikolaus Rath:
> >> On 10/08/2014 05:47 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >>> Am 09.10.2014 um 02:43 schrieb Nikolaus Rath:
> >>>> Package: systemd
> >>>> Version: 215-5+b1
> >>>> Severity: normal
> >>>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm running Debian testing. After the last dist-upgrade, systemd has
> >>>> started showing status messages during boot (sort of like sysvinit used
> >>>> to do). This is certainly much prettier and more informative than the
> >>>> blank screen that I had before, but it has the unfortunate side-effect
> >>>> of interfering with the cryptsetup password prompt. Sometimes the prompt
> >>>> is several lines before the cursor with other messsages in between, and
> >>>> sometimes it's actually overwritten completely.
> >>>>
> >>>> It'd be nice if status output would be suppressed/delayed while a
> >>>> password prompty is active.
> >>>
> >>> You'll need something like plymouth to multiplex the input/output.
> >>>
> >>> http://web.dodds.net/~vorlon/wiki/blog/Plymouth_is_not_a_bootsplash/
> >>
> >> In that case it'd be great if the systemd or the cryptsetup package
> >> could recommend or suggest the appropriate package (plymouth?).
> >
> > Could you verify that plymouth solves your problem?
>
> Yes it did. Thank you!
>
I think systemd handles this case more gracefully nowadays, so having
plymouth installed is no longer a necessity. I'm thus closing this bug
report.
A Recommends in systemd wouldn't actually help in any case, as systemd
is installed during the initial bootstrap phase, where recommends are
not considered and a hard Depends doesn't seem warranted.
If we wanted to install plymouth by default, we should use another
mechanism then having systemd recommend it.
Regards,
Michael
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