Bug 907622

Summary:	Password prompt for encrypted persistent /home no longer works
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	James Heather <drfudgeboy>
Component:	spin-kickstarts	Assignee:	Jeroen van Meeuwen <vanmeeuwen+fedora>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	18	CC:	adam.stokes, admiller, bcl, bruno, casper, dhuff, fedora, Jasper.Hartline, katzj, kevin, ondrejj, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description James Heather 2013-02-04 20:40:54 UTC

Description of problem:

A live USB stick with encrypted persistent /home can no longer be unlocked at boot time. The livesys script, which handles this, is seemingly being run in the background, so that although the password prompt appears, it doesn't wait for me to type it in. The machine continues booting, and the only option is Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as root, and mount /home manually.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

livecd-tools-18.14-1.fc18.x86_64

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create Live USB stick with encrypted persistent /home
2. Reboot
3. Watch boot sequence fly past password prompt without waiting
  
Actual results:

Doesn't wait for password prompt.

Expected results:

Waits for password prompt and then unlocks /home.

Additional info:

This might be something to do with the switch to systemd. The scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ appear now to be all run in the background, and so can't block until a password is given.

After the boot sequence, I switch to a terminal, and I can see from the output of ps that livesys is still executing, and has currently reached the plymouth ask-for-password line, which is also still executing. But I can't interact with it.

Comment 1 Jan ONDREJ 2013-02-15 11:48:19 UTC

I have exactly same problem. Also there is an similar bug report here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=865177
Long time without answer. :-(

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Comment 3 Jan ONDREJ 2013-12-21 11:22:49 UTC

Fixed in Fedora 20, thanks.