Ubuntu
cryptsetup package

  1. Bug #473615
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 473615

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Tomas Rudén (tomas-ruden) wrote :

I have tested the package (I believe, I have version 2:1.0.6+20090405.svn49-1ubuntu7.1). My configuration is

/etc/crypttab:
home /dev/sda6 none luks,tries=5

From /etc/fstab:
/dev/mapper/home /home ext4 defaults,nofail,relatime 0 2

With previous cryptsetup I got prompted for password, but it seemed that more than one process where reading my keystrokes, so I had to try several times before it worked.

Now I don't even get prompted for password. I get the prompt where I can press ESC and get a maintenance shell (without a password prompt, but thats another story). In that shell I can do a "cryptsetup luksOpen" and finally mount /home. After exiting the shell the boot continues.

While the boot requires more steps now, it is much more dependable and I don't have to reboot get my /home mounted.