Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.108
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
My disk is dm_crypted. After upgrading from 0.107 to 0.108, my system
could not
boot anymore with the newly generated ramfs: entering the passphrase did not
unlock the disk, yielding the same error message as a wrong passphrase.
Downgrading to 0.107 solved the problem.
Best regards
Samuel Hym
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* Samuel Hym [Mon Oct 01, 2012 at 06:41:10PM +0200]:
> My disk is dm_crypted. After upgrading from 0.107 to 0.108, my system
> could not
> boot anymore with the newly generated ramfs: entering the passphrase did not
> unlock the disk, yielding the same error message as a wrong passphrase.
> Downgrading to 0.107 solved the problem.
[...]
What version of cryptsetup are you using?
Is there any visible difference between running
"update-initramfs -u -v" for 0.107 and 0.108?
What about differences between the generated initramfs (check e.g.
with "lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r)")?
Does setting KEYMAP=y in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf help?
On Tue, 02 Oct 2012, Samuel Hym wrote:
> With 0.107, I have a line:
> Adding binary /bin/loadkeys
>
> not with 0.108.
I bet that you're missing the "console-setup" package because you're
not installing Recommends by default (kbd which provides loadkeys
recommends console-setup which provides setupcon, initramfs-tools version
0.108 requires both loadkeys and setupcon).
If that's the case, can you install console-setup and see whether it works
again?
I don't really know what's the proper solution though. Should
initramfs-tools add a Recommends of its own on "console-setup, kbd"?
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I was indeed missing the console-setup package, and with it works as expected.
(But I don't know what sequence of install / uninstall I must have
done, since aptitude selects the Recommends by defaults; but this
debian was installed some years ago, its history is long… In
particular, I don't know if the added Recommends would have changed my
running into the problem).
Cheers
Sam
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Control: severity -1 normal
Control: retitle -1 provide instructions when keymap support is requested but when loadkeys or setupcon is missing
Dropping the severity since most people will have console-setup installed.
On Fri, 05 Oct 2012, Samuel Hym wrote:
> I was indeed missing the console-setup package, and with it works as expected.
I believe that the update-initramfs keymap hook should display a warning about
missing packages when KEYMAP=y and when some of the required executables
are missing.
But that's all that is needed to fix this bug.
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On 05/10/2012 13:52, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>
> Dropping the severity since most people will have console-setup
> installed.
>
> On Fri, 05 Oct 2012, Samuel Hym wrote:
>> I was indeed missing the console-setup package, and with it works
>> as expected.
>
> I believe that the update-initramfs keymap hook should display a
> warning about missing packages when KEYMAP=y and when some of the
> required executables are missing.
>
> But that's all that is needed to fix this bug.
>
And as long as this not fixed, I'm not sure we should allow this package
to migrate to testing. Even if most people might have console-setup
installed, this new revision may break their setup without any
notification. Thus, I don't think downgrading severity to normal is the
right action.
Regards.
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Bug#689336: initramfs-tools 0.108 cannot decrypt dm_crypt filesystems
