F-15 boot issues

[James Laska]

On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 20:26 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 1) Yesterday an unattended reboot to F-15 went past the passphrase prompt
> for my LUKS /home partition and ended in gdm with /home not being mounted.
> 
> Normal behaviour would have been for me to type in the passphrase,
> because that's how it is set up in /etc/crypttab for this install.
> 
> The issue is not reproducible, and I boot into F-15 at least twice a day.
> What could I look at if I ran into it again?

Oddly enough, I _think_ this is the intended behavior.  I had a similar
issue during Alpha, and it seems admins asked for a passphrase timeout
when activating any non-essential system partitions during boot.  The
timeout is in the minutes range, I forget if it's 1 or 3 minutes.  I'm
trying to re-familiarize myself with this issue, so don't quote me on
this yet! :)

Are you not encrypting your rootfs, or is the passphrase for the rootfs
and /home different such that you are always prompted for the /home
passphrase on boot?

> 2) Partitions mounted twice:
> 
> $ mount|sort|uniq -d
> /dev/mapper/luks-15465009-86ee-4a3c-a291-5a105ca148c4 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,barrier=1,data=ordered)
> /dev/mapper/vg_faldor-Home on /home/misc15/mnt/sharedhome type ext3 (rw,relatime,seclabel,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,data=ordered)

Selinux sandbox (policycoreutils-sandbox) is responsible for making it
look like partitions are mounted twice.  Iirc, they are bind mounts.

> 3) Occasionally, a booted F-15 shows a gdm screen where existing user
> accounts are not displayed. Only 'Other' is available. I can use it to
> log in, and using Cancel refreshes gdm to display the previously missing
> users. Looks like there's a race condition somewhere.

Still trying to pinpoint this issue in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678236

Thanks,
James
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