[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#492451: Bug#492451: cryptsetup doesn't work with encrypted root and splashy in initramfs

[Jonas Meurer]

On 26/07/2008 John Hughes wrote:
> The askpass program, used to get the passphrase for decryption, doesn't 
> know how to talk to splashy.  If splashy is configured in the initramfs 
> then the boot hangs at the point where crypsetup prompts for the 
> passprhrase to decrypt the root filesystem.
> 
> A simple patch to make askpass work with splashy is attached.  Another, 
> possibly preferrable way of doing this would be to use the 
> /sbin/splashy_update program, via popen, to get the password.  This does 
> imply some horrid shell quoting problems however.

Hey John,

thanks for your work on support for splashy with cryptsetup/askpass. I
tested your patch, and unfortunately it doesn't work for me. The splashy
passphrase prompt is displayed, but then the display seems to be frozen.
Sometimes some asterisks are printed when I try to input my cryptsetup
passphrase, but at least after pressing return nothing happens anymore.

I reproduced that issue on my developing machine and a testing kvm
environment, both running up-to-date debian/unstable.

It would be great if you could look at that immediately as we're in
hurry to upload cryptsetup 1.0.6-4 in time for lenny. You can contact me
as mejo on irc.oftc.net.

greetings,
 jonas
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