On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 10:08:27PM +0200, Ismael Bouya wrote: > Hi, > I'm facing a problem with systemd and his "askpassword" feature: > > I want to add a luks partition, so I need to ask for the password at some > time. However, I don't want to ask for it during the boot sequence, so I > added the "nofail" flag and didn't put any timeout. > > Everything goes well, I can start and call the > systemd-tty-ask-password-agent whenever I want to have access to the > encrypted media. However... if I don't call that, then at shutdown the > computer hangs forever with a black screen seemingly waiting for something > (I had to try a few restarts to find out that the hanging comes from here). Sounds like a bug. Can you enable verbose logs and post the messages from a failed shutdown? It should be enough to 'systemd-analyze set-log-level debug', and then reboot, wait a few minutes and reset, and extract the logs using 'journalctl -b-1'.
> What did I miss in the configuration? It also happen if you put a > non-infinite timeout, but then the hanging finished at the > timeout. Basically that means that the "nofail" flag in crypttab cannot be > used reliably. > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > (Side question: Is there a way to say that systemd-tty-ask-password-agent > can be run by the user and not only by root to mount the disk? If he know > the disk password then he's most probably allowed to mount it...) No, but this sounds like a useful feature. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
