commit: 2ccc88ba7991f9c8a2690619d4e12acf38bfc911 Author: Mike Gilbert <floppym <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Tue Aug 6 17:03:09 2024 +0000 Commit: Mike Gilbert <floppym <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Sat Aug 10 01:13:53 2024 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=2ccc88ba
2024-08-09-dracut-crypt.en.txt: add news item Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym <AT> gentoo.org> .../2024-08-09-dracut-crypt.en.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/2024-08-09-dracut-crypt/2024-08-09-dracut-crypt.en.txt b/2024-08-09-dracut-crypt/2024-08-09-dracut-crypt.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..06ab340 --- /dev/null +++ b/2024-08-09-dracut-crypt/2024-08-09-dracut-crypt.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Title: dracut module config changes +Author: Mike Gilbert <[email protected]> +Posted: 2024-08-09 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: sys-kernel/dracut + +Starting with dracut-102, cryptsetup support for systemd has been moved +into a separate module "systemd-cryptsetup". Under specific conditions, +this change may cause a failure to boot. [1] + +Users who are not using cryptsetup at all will not be affected. + +Users who use the "dracutmodules" config option to explicitly name all +modules to be included may be affected if they fail to update their +dracut configuration to include the new "systemd-cryptsetup" module. + +Users who have not altered the default config, or who are not using the +"dracutmodules" option should not be affected. + +The dracut.conf(5) manual page warns against using "dracutmodules". +Instead, the "add_dracutmodules" and "omit_dracutmodules" can be used to +to alter the default module list with less risk of omiting modules by +accident. + +[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/937326
