Bug 524366

Summary:	dracut promts password for luks when it doesn't need to
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Kenneth Topp <ken>
Component:	dracut	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Kenneth Topp 2009-09-19 14:03:46 UTC

I have a unencrypted drive specified by root=UUID=.. in grub.conf
the system has varies encrypted drives.

dracut is prompting for passwords for one of the other block devices, even though the root block device is available.  I hit enter a couple times (it re-asks only for the same drive) and then it leaves me alone.

adding rd_NO_LUKS works to avoid this bug.

running koji's dracut-002-2.gitc53acc30 on x86_64

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2009-09-21 13:13:14 UTC

hmm, working as intended...

Comment 2 Kenneth Topp 2011-02-06 17:57:46 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> hmm, working as intended...

why is this a bug?  what is dracut's goal?  Is it not to get to the root fs?  why does it continue to prompt to decrypt filesystems beyond what it needs

Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2011-02-08 11:56:30 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > hmm, working as intended...
> 
> why is this a bug?  what is dracut's goal?  Is it not to get to the root fs? 
> why does it continue to prompt to decrypt filesystems beyond what it needs

because dracut is an all purpose initramfs without any configuration, and it does not know what it does not have to do, to get to the root device. Normally anaconda (the installer) would write "rd_NO_LUKS" to the kernel command line.