[Bug 677949] Re: after lucid upgrade: have to wait several minutes for crypted root to come up

[dino99]

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** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  after lucid upgrade: have to wait several minutes for crypted root to
  come up

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

  I upgraded to Karmic and used it without any problems but when
  upgrading to Lucid yesterday a heap of problems appeared. Thanks to
  all the great resources here and elsewhere on the net I have been able
  to solve most of these today but one very annoying one has remained
  and I can't seem to find a solution: During boot process, after the
  message "Waiting for encrypted source device" appears I have to wait
  more than 3 minutes before I am asked to enter the passphrase for my
  encrypted root partition (before upgrading to Lucid there was no such
  delay).

  According to bootchart initramfs' cryptroot script falls asleep for
  over 3 minutes before the crypted root comes up and askpass is called
  to ask for the passphrase.

  Here are some changes I have had to make to the standard installation
  due to other errors after upgrade: I had to deactive framebuffer and
  plymouth splash during boot because when using the framebuffer even
  after waiting for 3 minutes I could not enter the passphrase and
  continue to boot because normal keypresses were not registered by the
  system (only special keys such as ESC, ALT-combinations etc. which
  changed between splash and framebuffer text mode). This is also why
  cryptsetups' askpass is being used for passphrase retrieval and not
  plymouth. Furthermore, I kept getting an error message about
  /scripts/functions missing whenever running update-initramfs and I had
  to edit /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot to remove
  that error as described here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
  bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=576488 . After that, no more errors appeared
  when running update-initramfs but I still had to wait for 3+ minutes
  for the root device to come up when booting.

  I am including /etc/fstab, /etc/crypttab, dmesg and the latest
  bootchart image .

  Some further info about my system:
  Ubuntu Release: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
  Packages:
    initramfs-tools 0.92bubuntu78
    initramfs-tools-bin 0.92bubuntu78
    cryptsetup 2:1.1.0~rc2-1ubuntu13
    udev 151-12.2
    mountall 2.15.3

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: initramfs-tools 0.92bubuntu78
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.45-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Nov 20 21:12:06 2010
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: initramfs-tools

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