On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 05:06:06PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Package: cryptsetup > Version: 2:1.6.6-5 > Severity: important > > I have two machines which have an encrypted swap partition, and at > some point they stopped shutting down cleanly. They are still running > with a sysvinit init system, if that might be making a difference. > They reach the /etc/init.d/cryptdisks stop command, they say "Stopping > remaining crypto disks", and then hang. Adding some debugging lines > to /lib/cryptsetup/cryptodisks, it became clear that they are hanging > on the command: "cryptsetup remove sda7_crypt" within do_close. (This > is happening on every shutdown or restart.) > > At that point, the only way to complete the shutdown is to do a > hardware power-down, hence why I have labelled this bug as > "important".
I have recently migrated to systemd, and now my machine shuts down smoothly, so it seems it may be a sysvinit-related issue. Julian