Hello, While I realize the method for solving the problem hasn't been fully identified, I just wanted to provide an updated patch for cryptsource delay that is being used in Ubuntu...
-Kees -- Kees Cook @debian.org
--- cryptsetup-1.0.6+20090405.svn49~/debian/initramfs/cryptroot-script 2009-05-10 16:51:44.000000000 -0700 +++ cryptsetup-1.0.6+20090405.svn49/debian/initramfs/cryptroot-script 2009-05-10 17:00:30.000000000 -0700 @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ #!/bin/sh +# source for log_*_msg() functions, see LP: #272301 +. /scripts/functions + # # Standard initramfs preamble # @@ -193,12 +196,51 @@ activate_evms $cryptsource fi - udev_settle + # If the encrypted source device hasn't shown up yet, give it a + # little while to deal with removable devices - if [ ! -e $cryptsource ]; then - message "cryptsetup: source device $cryptsource not found" - return 1 + # the following lines below have been taken from + # /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local, as suggested per + # https://launchpad.net/bugs/164044 + if [ ! -e "$cryptsource" ] + then + log_begin_msg "Waiting for encrypted source device..." + + # Default delay is 180s + if [ -z "${ROOTDELAY}" ]; then + slumber=180 + else + slumber=${ROOTDELAY} + fi + if [ -x /sbin/usplash_write ]; then + /sbin/usplash_write "TIMEOUT ${slumber}" || true + fi + + slumber=$(( ${slumber} * 10 )) + while [ ! -e "$cryptsource" ] + do + /bin/sleep 0.1 + slumber=$(( ${slumber} - 1 )) + [ ${slumber} -gt 0 ] || break + done + + if [ ${slumber} -gt 0 ]; then + log_end_msg 0 + else + log_end_msg 1 || true + fi + if [ -x /sbin/usplash_write ]; then + /sbin/usplash_write "TIMEOUT 15" || true + fi fi + udev_settle + + # We've given up, but we'll let the user fix matters if they can + while [ ! -e "${cryptsource}" ]; do + echo " Check cryptopts=source= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline" + echo " or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev" + panic -r "ALERT! ${cryptsource} does not exist. Dropping to a shell!" + done # Prepare commands if /sbin/cryptsetup isLuks $cryptsource > /dev/null 2>&1; then
