Bug#1035813: brltty: Fails to start on early boot
Hi Samuel Thibault schrieb am 10.05.2023, 1:49 +0200: >Sebastian Humenda, le mar. 09 mai 2023 15:53:05 +0200, a ecrit: >> On my Debian Bookworm system, I've configured BRLTTY with speech output over >> espeak-ng and a USB braille device. However, I am unable to use BRLTTY for my >> password entry of my encrypted /home partition; > >Does it start after that? Yes, it does. Sometimes even after lightdm has, with Orca, announced that a password is required. >> I've enabled the option that BRLTTY is pat of the initramfs, but I suspect it >> is present, but not started. Is there any other action required? > >AFAIK all is needed is enabling it in /etc/default/brltty and running >update-initramf -u (which prints "Installing BRLTTY into initramfs) Yes, indeed. >> I also think that the dependencies of BRLTTY prevent it from being started by >> systemd at an earlier stage. I'm not familiar with the Systemd boot process, >> but it could be related to requiring paths like /var/lib/brltty to be mounted > >Yes, the brltty service expresses that it needs /var/lib/brlty and >BrlAPI. But that shouldn't be requiring /home/ Yes, but I thought that sysemd might order the mounts by some means which would, just as an implementation detail, mount /home before it declares /var to be present (unlikely though). >I tried to install a system with an encrypted /home, and brltty does get >started before the /home passphrase step. You can probably check >journalctl and other systemd tools to see what is actually happening. The flood of messages is a bit overwelming. The systemd unit of BRLTTY (journalctl -u brltty) is obviously not helpful. To you suggest to read /var/log/syslog from the boot on? Thanks Sebastian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#1035813: brltty: Fails to start on early boot
Sebastian Humenda, le mar. 09 mai 2023 15:53:05 +0200, a ecrit: > On my Debian Bookworm system, I've configured BRLTTY with speech output over > espeak-ng and a USB braille device. However, I am unable to use BRLTTY for my > password entry of my encrypted /home partition; Does it start after that? > I've enabled the option that BRLTTY is pat of the initramfs, but I suspect it > is present, but not started. Is there any other action required? AFAIK all is needed is enabling it in /etc/default/brltty and running update-initramf -u (which prints "Installing BRLTTY into initramfs) > I also think that the dependencies of BRLTTY prevent it from being started by > systemd at an earlier stage. I'm not familiar with the Systemd boot process, > but it could be related to requiring paths like /var/lib/brltty to be mounted Yes, the brltty service expresses that it needs /var/lib/brlty and BrlAPI. But that shouldn't be requiring /home/ > and /home just unfortunately being earlier. There is no notion of "earlier" in systemd, just dependencies. I tried to install a system with an encrypted /home, and brltty does get started before the /home passphrase step. You can probably check journalctl and other systemd tools to see what is actually happening. Samuel
Bug#1035813: brltty: Fails to start on early boot
Package: brltty Version: 6.5-7 Severity: important Tags: a11y Hi On my Debian Bookworm system, I've configured BRLTTY with speech output over espeak-ng and a USB braille device. However, I am unable to use BRLTTY for my password entry of my encrypted /home partition; note that / is unencrypted. I've enabled the option that BRLTTY is pat of the initramfs, but I suspect it is present, but not started. Is there any other action required? I also think that the dependencies of BRLTTY prevent it from being started by systemd at an earlier stage. I'm not familiar with the Systemd boot process, but it could be related to requiring paths like /var/lib/brltty to be mounted and /home just unfortunately being earlier. In any case, it would be good to still have a11y support for entering the pass-phrase, in particular, for cases where something goes wrong. Thanks -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.0 APT prefers testing-security APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages brltty depends on: ii init-system-helpers1.65.2 ii libasound2 1.2.8-1+b1 ii libbluetooth3 5.66-1 ii libbrlapi0.8 6.5-7 ii libc6 2.36-9 ii libcap21:2.66-3 ii libdbus-1-31.14.6-1 ii libexpat1 2.5.0-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.74.6-2 ii libgpm21.20.7-10+b1 ii libicu72 72.1-3 ii liblouis20 3.24.0-1 ii libncursesw6 6.4-2 ii libpcre2-32-0 10.42-1 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 122-3 ii libsystemd0252.6-1 ii libtinfo6 6.4-2 ii lsb-base 11.6 ii policykit-1122-3 ii polkitd122-3 ii sysvinit-utils [lsb-base] 3.06-4 Versions of packages brltty recommends: ii python3 3.11.2-1+b1 Versions of packages brltty suggests: ii brltty-speechd 6.5-7 ii brltty-x11 6.5-7 pn console-braille pn unicode-cldr-core -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/brltty changed: ARGUMENTS="-q" START_IN_INITRAMFS=true -- no debconf information
