Description of problem: Installed Fedora 12 beta x86_64 with with encrypted root partition (/) located on the logical volume. The installation has only /boot and /. There are some more encrypted partitions (on logical volumes), but they were not configured to be used by Fedora during installation. When Fedora starts is asks for partition password multiple times. It looks like is tries to unlock all available encrypted partitions. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. There should be some encrypted partitions before installing Fedora 12 beta. 2. Install Fedora 12 beta x86_64 with the following schema: /boot (unencrypted) / (encrypted) 3. Boot Fedora. Actual results: Fedora asks for partition password multiple times. Expected results: Fedora should ask for partition password just once. Additional info:
When it asks for the second and subsequent passwords, what are the prompts? (if any?)
the second and subsequent passwords prompts are exactly the same as the first one. I can attach photo/video it it would be helpful.
A photo or two would be great. Also, the output of rpm -q dracut plymouth and cat /proc/cmdline
Created attachment 367355 [details] First password prompt
Created attachment 367356 [details] Second password prompt It is shown after some seconds after the first one. There are a few more but they are the same. It seams it is shown for every encrypted partition present in the system.
Here is the requested output. rpm -q dracut plymouth: dracut-002-13.4.git8f397a9b.fc12.noarch plymouth-0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.9.fc12.x86_64 cat /proc/cmdline: ro root=/dev/mapper/luks-ce6a558e-435c-4dc2-a617-8965268ed3ba LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
seems like http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-October/msg00201.html again Does adding rd_NO_LUKS to your kernel command line in /etc/grub.conf make the problem go away?
The problem seems to be very similar with the one on mailing list. Unfortunately adding rd_NO_LUKS to kernel command line did not fixed the problem. With that parameter the boot process never asks for partition password and after a while there is a black screen with following message: "No root device found Boot has failed, sleeping forever." Here is how my grub.conf menu entry looks now (F12 /boot partition is sda2): title Fedora (2.6.31.1-56.fc12.x86_64) test root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.1-56.fc12.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/luks-ce6a558e-435c-4dc2-a617-8965268ed3ba LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet rd_NO_LUKS initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.1-56.fc12.x86_64.img
if root is encrypted, you can add rd_LUKS_UUID=luks-<uuid> run # dracut-gencmdline and you will see the uuid.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 530898 ***