login prompt for encrypted partitions in F15

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Mon May 9 16:30:06 UTC 2011


On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 12:09:32 -0400,
  Kamil Paral <kparal at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> was anyone else hit by this bug?
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702650
> 
> Basically if you have an encrypted partition that is not unlocked as soon as root partition is, but only later in the boot process, the password prompt is stuck and you can't input any text.

I get hit by something that is probably related. I sometimes need to enter
a phasephrase that should already be available from earlier in the boot again.
But my system doesn't hand here. Once I enter the passphrase again, the boot
continues as expected. This is covered in the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679907


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