[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#932643: cryptsetup upgrade causes cryptsetup-initramfs autoremoval and boot failure

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

And I should mention the precise symptoms: at boot, there is no Plymouth 
passphrase entry and the console displays error messages about not being 
able to mount the volume group.

cryptsetup 2:2.1.0-5 had the following:
Depends: cryptsetup-initramfs (>= 2:2.0.3-1), cryptsetup-run (>= 2:2.0.3-1)

cryptsetup 2:2.1.0-6 has no dependency on cryptsetup-initramfs so the 
latter will be autoremoved if only cryptsetup was marked manual by the 
installer.

The affected sid system was installed with a testing installer in April 
2017. I do not know what the current installer marks as manual for 
LUKS/LVM installations but the affected system had only cryptsetup 
marked as manual and was relying on its Depends: cryptsetup-initramfs to 
boot.

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben at transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/>
New Zealand