Boot hangs indefinitely (regression)

[Marc D.]

Binary package hint: cryptsetup

Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04

My system no longer boots, I believe after this upgrade in Lucid:

[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] plymouth
[UPGRADE] cryptsetup 2:1.1.0~rc2-1ubuntu11 -> 2:1.1.0~rc2-1ubuntu12

I usually run with the boot options "quiet splash" removed, and this worked fine in Karmic and in Lucid up to that upgrade. Now after the output "Running scripts/init-top" I should be asked for my passphrase for /, however, nothing happens. With SysRq+T I can see that cryptsetup is running, however.

With "splash" I am asked for my passphrase but no input is accepted (tried with the correct keymap and the default keymap).

This is a regression from Karmic.

My setup is fairly innocent, /boot is unencrypted, / and /home are encrypted with LUKS, swap is encrypted with a random key and there is another data partition, encrypted with LUKS (which is new).

I can still boot with my old initramfs that I restored from backup.

[Marc D. (koshy)]

I forgot to mention, I use kernel version 2.6.33-020633rc8-generic (because that is the latest one that I have a working initramfs for).

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Marc,

If you press Alt+F7 at boot, do you find the passphrase prompt there on the other VT?

[Marc D. (koshy)]

On Monday, March 01, 2010 at 19:06:37 (-0000), Steve Langasek wrote:
> If you press Alt+F7 at boot, do you find the passphrase prompt there on
> the other VT?

Yes, indeed, and it works. Thank you.

Marc

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