Bug#853756: debian-installer: no cryptsetup available in rescue mode
Hi KiBi,
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 09:20:53PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Control: notfound -1 20170112
> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
>
> Toni Mueller <support@oeko.net> (2017-01-31):
> > I downloaded the testing installer using Jigdo from here:
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/jigdo-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.jigdo
> > because the Jessie installer in 8.7.1 would not work for me (#750586).
>
> Well that isn't D-I Stretch RC 1 then. That one lives under:
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/stretch_di_rc1/
I'm confused - the testing CD does not use the latest d-i?
> > > Were you prompted with a passphrase for the detected LUKS partition?
> > When I tried to run the installer in the "rescue" mode, it did not
> > prompt me with anything, but when it said something like "partition
> > disks", it did not have any crypto entries. On the console, it was
> > complaining about two missing modules, one of which ended with _crypto.
> >
> > I looked for cryptsetup, but could not find it.
>
> cryptsetup is the component installed in /target (the installed system),
> not what d-i uses.
>
> Anyway, trying this image:
> f234f4aa708bdb226c0f412e85c37541c654526e downloads/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
I could set up an encrypted partition in the installation procedure,
just not access it during the rescue operation.
$ sha1sum debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
1d50301e6eccba6b116253f323cf397cfccd88fe debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
Your image is different. I downloaded "mine" this morning, btw.
> with a VM installed with guided encrypted LVM, and starting graphical
> rescue mode, I'm getting prompted for a passphrase to unlock /dev/sda5
> as expected, so d-i seems to behave properly.
I used the manual method, because I wanted to have a RAID1 underneath.
> > > Syslog might be interesting (vt4, or /var/log/syslog from another vt).
> >
> > :/
> >
> > I am sorry, but currently I can't produce those logs.
>
> Given my test results above, we'll need those…
Ok. I'll see what I can do.
Cheers,
--Toni++
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