Ubuntu
cryptsetup package

  1. Bug #1237556
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 1237556

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1237556] Re: cryptsetup removed from initrd.img on upgrade to 13.10

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 11:52:11PM -0000, Andres Gomez wrote:
> It actually is a bug in Ubuntu because:

> 1. The /etc/crypttab was autogenerated during the installation. I never
> touched it before. The warning was always there.

In that case, it would be a bug in whatever method you used to install
Ubuntu, yes. Please provide us details on how you installed Ubuntu, so we
can reproduce this error.

> 2. A WARNING, in a file that actually has 1 valid cryptsetup line
> shouldn't lead to NOT including the cryptsetup tool in the initrd image.

Yes, it should. It was a bug that we were unconditionally installing
cryptsetup to the initramfs before for all users that had cryptsetup
installed, bloating the initramfs and slowing down their boot. This bug has
now been *fixed*, and in the process it has exposed a problem with your
system. That may, as you say, also be a bug in the Ubuntu installer; but
that is NOT grounds for restoring the previous buggy behavior.