Ubuntu
cryptsetup package

cryptsetup fails to read password from console at boot time

Bug #67570 reported by Christian Heimes on 2006-10-22

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #62751: Upstart doesn't activate luks volumes (also non luks) in cryptsetup. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	cryptsetup (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: cryptsetup

cryptsetup 1.0.3-3ubuntu3
distro: edgy

After an update to Edgy my encrypted /var partition can't be mounted at startup. The cryptsetup command fails with an error message "Error reading password" or similar (I can't remember the exact wording). It seems like it can't grab a password prompt from the tty. It might be related with the new upstart system.

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Ian Gulliver (ian-launchpad) wrote on 2006-10-26:

I can confirm this. Attempting "/etc/init.d/cryptdisks start" at the rescue prompt during bootup also fails; it looks like it can't grab the terminal to read from. Running the same command from a terminal after the system has started works normally.