On 26/07/2008 John Hughes wrote: > The askpass program, used to get the passphrase for decryption, doesn't > know how to talk to splashy. If splashy is configured in the initramfs > then the boot hangs at the point where crypsetup prompts for the > passprhrase to decrypt the root filesystem. > > A simple patch to make askpass work with splashy is attached. Another, > possibly preferrable way of doing this would be to use the > /sbin/splashy_update program, via popen, to get the password. This does > imply some horrid shell quoting problems however.
Hey John, thanks for your work on support for splashy with cryptsetup/askpass. I tested your patch, and unfortunately it doesn't work for me. The splashy passphrase prompt is displayed, but then the display seems to be frozen. Sometimes some asterisks are printed when I try to input my cryptsetup passphrase, but at least after pressing return nothing happens anymore. I reproduced that issue on my developing machine and a testing kvm environment, both running up-to-date debian/unstable. It would be great if you could look at that immediately as we're in hurry to upload cryptsetup 1.0.6-4 in time for lenny. You can contact me as mejo on irc.oftc.net. greetings, jonas
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