Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Wed 24 Apr 2024 at 14:50:36 (+0200), Richard wrote:
> upon gathering my thoughts for answering to you I found the solution to
> this: update-initramfs can't handle the case that crypttab ends in the line
> of the last entry and not in a new line character. I think there either
> should be a fix for this or at least a way to handle this case with a much
> clearer error message. So I'll probably open a bug report for the package
> and the maintainer can decide if that should be forwarded upstream. Such a
> rather trivial case shouldn't be resulting in such fatal errors.

Some time at the end of the last century, I remember some startup script
that cat'd its configuration file for that very reason. It taught me
the habit of always finishing files with a blank comment line:

$ cat /etc/crypttab 
# <target name> <source device> <key file>      <options>
swap            LABEL=cryptswap /dev/urandom    swap,offset=2048,cipher=aes-xts-plain64,size=512
#
$ 

Cheers,
David.