Martin Manns:
After switching to systemd, [...] password entry on startup looks
> weird because some weird red moving stars are shown instead of a
> prompt. [...] This is probably a configuration issue. However, I was
> not able to find a good solution with google (between all the systemd
> rants).
That's what you get when your first recourse is Google rather than the
manual that comes with your software on your computer. (-: The manual
pages that you should be reading are:
* man -S 5 crypttab #
(http://freedesktop.org./software/systemd/man/crypttab.html)
* man -S 8 systemd-cryptsetup-generator #
(http://freedesktop.org./software/systemd/man/systemd-cryptsetup-generator.html)
* man -S 8 systemd-cryptse...@.service.html #
(http://freedesktop.org./software/systemd/man/systemd-cryptse...@.service.html)
After reading them, you'll know that you should be finding out about
password agents:
* http://freedesktop.org./wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents/
Plymouth is right there at the top of the list.
The official name for the "weird red moving stars" is "animated boot
time output for hanging jobs". But its unofficial name is the "systemd
Cylon eye". This is the part that is undocumented. Your auto-generated
systemd-cryptsetup@ jobs are of course hanging waiting for a response
from the systemd RPC password prompting system that hands the passwords
to them. Since you don't have plymouth, you're using the rather less
prettified fallback password prompter that comes bundled in the systemd
package that doesn't work too well with other console output happening
at the same time. And again you have to start with reading the manual
rather than with Google:
* man -S 8 systemd-ask-password-console.service #
(http://freedesktop.org./software/systemd/man/systemd-ask-password-console.service.html)
* man -S 1 systemd-tty-ask-password-agent #
(http://freedesktop.org./software/systemd/man/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent.html)
Yes, the plymouth documentation is from the Use The Source Luke school
of badly written documentation. You have to read the developer doco to
even find a mention of the word "password", and even that's almost
incidental. Here's the source, Luke, for what it's worth:
*
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/plymouth/tree/systemd-units/systemd-ask-password-plymouth.service.in
* http://cgit.freedesktop.org/plymouth/tree/docs/development.txt
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