Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

I upgraded to Karmic and used it without any problems but when upgrading
to Lucid yesterday a heap of problems appeared. Thanks to all the great
resources here and elsewhere on the net I have been able to solve most
of these today but one very annoying one has remained and I can't seem
to find a solution: During boot process, after the message "Waiting for
encrypted source device" appears I have to wait more than 3 minutes
before I am asked to enter the passphrase for my encrypted root
partition (before upgrading to Lucid there was no such delay).

According to bootchart initramfs' cryptroot script falls asleep for over
3 minutes before the crypted root comes up and askpass is called to ask
for the passphrase.

Here are some changes I have had to make to the standard installation
due to other errors after upgrade: I had to deactive framebuffer and
plymouth splash during boot because when using the framebuffer even
after waiting for 3 minutes I could not enter the passphrase and
continue to boot because normal keypresses were not registered by the
system (only special keys such as ESC, ALT-combinations etc. which
changed between splash and framebuffer text mode). This is also why
cryptsetups' askpass is being used for passphrase retrieval and not
plymouth. Furthermore, I kept getting an error message about
/scripts/functions missing whenever running update-initramfs and I had
to edit /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot to remove that
error as described here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=576488 . After that, no more errors appeared when
running update-initramfs but I still had to wait for 3+ minutes for the
root device to come up when booting.

I am including /etc/fstab, /etc/crypttab, dmesg and the latest bootchart
image .

Some further info about my system:
Ubuntu Release: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Packages:
  initramfs-tools 0.92bubuntu78
  initramfs-tools-bin 0.92bubuntu78
  cryptsetup 2:1.1.0~rc2-1ubuntu13
  udev 151-12.2
  mountall 2.15.3

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: initramfs-tools 0.92bubuntu78
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.45-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 20 21:12:06 2010
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: initramfs-tools

** Affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid

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after lucid upgrade: have to wait several minutes for crypted root to come up
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/677949
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