Bug 459115

Summary: Plymouth fails to decrypt secondary partitions from the first time
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Alexander Todorov <atodorov>
Component: plymouthAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Alexander Todorov 2008-08-14 14:42:53 UTC 
Description of problem:
When booting with more than one encrypted partitions there is a strange looking failure. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
f10-alpha,
plymouth-0.5.0-6.fc10

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install with 2 or more encrypted partitions (/, swap, /home). In my case /, swap as LVM members.
2. Make each partition encrypted with separate password
3. Proceed with install
  
Actual results:
1. A password prompt for /. The partition is decrypted properly.
2. The same prompt for swap, /home. After entering the password:
Command failed: No key available with this passphrase
Unable to access resume device (/device/for/swap)
3. Shortly after (after udev starts I think) another message prompt appears. It looks like the one in F9 (which comes from init I think). Entering the password there works as expected.

Expected results:
when entering the password in plymouth prompt secondary partitions are decrypted and the user is not asked again for the password.

Additional info:
see attached screenshots.

Also tested with /, swap, /home - same behavior just you're not asked for /home's password at the beginning as it's not necessary
Comment 1 Alexander Todorov 2008-08-14 14:43:57 UTC 
Created attachment 314321 [details]
1st message showing there's an error
Comment 2 Alexander Todorov 2008-08-14 14:45:52 UTC 
Created attachment 314322 [details]
2nd prompt for swap's passphrase

notice how the message appears at the top of the screen and it's easy to overlook this. Pressing <Enter> several times makes it re-appear below the current text and the successful decrypt is clearly visible.
Comment 3 Alexander Todorov 2008-08-14 14:48:10 UTC 
Maybe it's more correct to change the summary to:
fails to decrypt swap from the first time when on separate partition.
Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-08-26 13:46:33 UTC 
There was a bug where the second password would always fail if it was longer than the first password.

Is that what you saw?

There's been a number of fixes the password asking code, including a fix for the aforementioned bug, so I'm going to close this out.

If you have anymore problems, though, please reopen.
Comment 5 Alexander Todorov 2008-08-27 06:45:29 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> There was a bug where the second password would always fail if it was longer
> than the first password.
> 
> Is that what you saw?
> 

Nope. Both passwords are the same size. i.e: root-pass, swap-pass, home-pass

Re-opening until I test this with a newer release to confirm if fixed.
Comment 6 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-09-23 18:00:01 UTC 
marking MODIFIED since fix is just waiting verification.
Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 2008-10-24 19:51:47 UTC 
Can you please test this with beta, or one of the subsequent snapshot releases?
Comment 8 Alexander Todorov 2008-10-27 09:04:18 UTC 
can't verify due to bug #468656. I can't perform the install.
Comment 9 Bill Nottingham 2008-11-04 18:58:52 UTC 
Are you able to use the Preview to test this?
Comment 10 Alexander Todorov 2008-11-05 11:55:40 UTC 
/home and / encrypted with 2 different passwords. Plymouth asked twice for the password for /home.
Comment 11 Alexander Todorov 2008-11-05 12:01:00 UTC 
Ignore comment #10. 


/home and / encrypted with 2 different passwords, both on key slot 0. Plymouth asks only one time for password for /home then proceeds.
Comment 12 Bill Nottingham 2008-11-05 21:15:37 UTC 
OK, then closing. Thanks for testing!