Re: cryptdisks runlevel configuration for lvm2 + encrypted swap file
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, 10:18-0400, Jean-Marc Ranger <jmranger@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Since no-one replied yet...
>
> I don't have an answer, only ideas.
>
> IIRC, scripts in only one of the rc?.d are executed on startup.
> Which one depend on the requested runlevel, default value being
> specified in /etc/inittab.
>
> Looking at my cryptdisks and cryptdisks-early scripts, they appear
> to be almost identical, both using code in
> /lib/cryptsetup/cryptdisks.functions
> I haven't found a way to specify whether a disk is an early one or
> not. The only difference seems to be that when in "early" mode,
> failures aren't reported.
>
> Not sure how versed you are in script programming, but my take at
> debugging this would be to add more traces in cryptdisks.functions
> file, especially in the handle_crypttab_line_start funtion, that is
> called for each line in crypttab during startup. I'd be adding lines
> to check
> - whether /var is mounted
> - whether /dev/urandom can be accesses
> - function error codes
>
> Good luck. I'm looking forward reading your explanation on what the
> issue was.
Thanks for the reply. Looks like this will be my weekend project as I
won't have time for much debugging until then.
Cheers,
Jimmy
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