Re: cryptsetup gui

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On Fri, 1 May 2020, Arno Wagner wrote:

> On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 18:08:28 CEST, Michael Kj?rling wrote:
>> On 1 May 2020 15:44 +0200, from [email protected]:
>>> i don't know what i have screwed up
>>> i have an encrypted root fs
>>> while the system is still running the initial ramdisk it launches a cryptsetup gui
>>> it ask for the password and then presents 3 square dots
>>> this obscures the rest of the boot process
>>> can someone tell me how to disable this
>>> i don't know if this is part of dm-crypt or not
>>
>> That doesn't sound to me like anything that's part of cryptsetup, LUKS
>> or dm-crypt.
>>
>> It's more likely to be a distribution front-end to the tools that
>> unlock the LUKS container.
>>
>> I'd recommend that you look to see if this is a known issue with your
>> distribution and distribution version; if not, consider filing a bug
>> report with the distribution vendor.
>>
>
> I second that. Cryptsetup has no gui and it does not do encrypted
> root. You can do encrypted root with cryptsetup in an initrd
> and your distro seems to do that.
>
> If you want to change this process, you likely have to modify
> the initrd created or delivered by your distro. The cryptsetup
> FAQ has some help there in Section 9, but do not expect a detailed
> guide:
>
> https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/-/wikis/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#9-the-initrd-question
>
> Regards,
> Arno

i asked on the debian mailing list but got no response
thanks
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