Public bug reported: Hello,
(On Quantal) When using passphrase-protected LUKS encryped partition, 'mountall' shows the "Continue to wait, or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery" after the (hardcoded) 3-second BOREDOM_TIMEOUT. This is: - inappropriate as long as a passphrase is being prompted for - useless since the prompt intercepts the key presses (and prevents the S or M option to be used) - inelegant (any potentially misleading) I first thought of adding a mountpoint-specific option to disable boredom messages for appropriate mountpoints. But adding yet-another option to the mountpoint stanza somehow seemed wrong. On the other hand, if cryptsetup fails after several passphrase attemps, one should still be given the choice to Skip or Manually recover the partition. I don't know how to handle a "state" tracking between 'cryptsetup' and 'mountall', so that 'mountall' does not get bored as long as a passphrase is being prompted for. The best way I found to make that issue less "invasive" is to allow the boredom timeout to being extended (globally) when a particular system setup requires it. I thus attach a patch that allows to change the boredom timeout to the "dev_wait_time" (or ROOTDELAY, if it is undefined) via a new '--be- patient' option and configuration variables in /etc/default/mountall. Corresponding patched Quantal 'mountall' package should be available shortly from https://launchpad.net/~cedric.dufour/+archive/ppa/ Hope it can help. ** Affects: mountall (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Patch added: "mountall.disable_impatient_behavior.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1104156/+attachment/3498342/+files/mountall.disable_impatient_behavior.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1104156 Title: "Continue to wait, or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery" when waiting for LUKS passphrase To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/1104156/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
