Package: cryptsetup-initramfs Version: 2:2.1.0-5
I am running Debian 10.0 Buster, kernel 4.19.37-3 (linux-image-4.19.0-5-amd64) and libc6 2.28-10. Dear Bugtracking System, First for the cryptsetup developers. A comment for mdadm developers, see below. I'm setting up a new Debian Buster computer with LVM ontop of LUKS ontop of MD raid1 with UEFI and GPT. It was some manual disk setup to get even /boot/efi on raid (with metadata 1.0), etc. The short version is: md0 as /boot/efi, md1 as /boot and md2 holds a LUKS container. Inside the LUKS container I use LVM to have all my other parititions including swap and root (/), /home, etc. Everything works as expected until I disconnect one of the disks to verify that the system works even in degraded mode. Without the patch below I had to wait for the initramfs timeout and while in busybox I cound do "mdadm --run md0", etc followed by exit and then enter the passphrase for the LUKS container. After trying a number of things/scripts to put into /etc/initramfs-tools/scipts/..., I ended up with this short patch that does it all; diff -u /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot --- /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot 2019-06-10 14:51:15.000000000 +0200 +++ /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot 2019-06-29 16:38:13.117078786 +0200 @@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ while [ $slumber -gt 0 ]; do sleep 1 + # Added by Mem, 2019-06-29 + if [ -x /scripts/local-block/mdadm ] ; then + /scripts/local-block/mdadm + fi + if [ -x /scripts/local-block/lvm2 ]; then # activate any VG that might hold $CRYPTTAB_SOURCE /scripts/local-block/lvm2 "$CRYPTTAB_SOURCE" I hope the patch is useful to include in 'cryptsetup-initramfs' package. I am not a real developer and don't really know how to put it in the correct git repository or wherever to put it. You're fine to remove my comment line. For the mdadm developers, the following patch is an idea of how to inform the user during boot that something is not as it should be. diff -u /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-block/mdadm /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-block/mdadm --- /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-block/mdadm 2019-01-15 19:23:53.000000000 +0100 +++ /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-block/mdadm 2019-06-29 16:52:25.584706119 +0200 @@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ if [ "$COUNT" = "$MAX" ] then # Poor man's mdadm-last-resort@.service for incremental devices + + # Added by Mem, 2019-06-29 + echo "Doing poor man's last-resort for mdadm mount..." + echo "You probably have a degraded raid-set, PLEASE verify when system booted!!!" + echo + mdadm -q --run /dev/md?* # And last try for all others I use 'echo' instead of some 'log_xxx_msg' as I preferre to have the printout even when booting with "quiet" as kernel parameter. Regards, // Mem (Debian sysadmin for some 20 odd years)