[systemd-devel] encrypted /var with systemd - impossible?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 27.06.11 14:49, yoshi watanabe (yoshi314 at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi list (again) ;)
> 
> In short : my setup is as follows - i have my / on ssd, so i decided
> to move /var over to regular hdd. which is entirely encrypted (lvm
> inside luks, /var is one of lvm volumes).
> 
> This works just fine on various distributions i tried
> (gentoo,arch,exherbo,probably opensuse as well), usually with dracut
> as initrd system and their default init systems.
> 
> when using systemd, regardless of underlying distribution, system does
> not boot correctly. it usually locks up somewhere during boot, waiting
> for something.
> 
> i tried it with clean default fedora 15 install (just set up /var as
> encrypted lvm partition), i also tried it with exherbo and with
> gentoo. they all either get stuck, or boot up into half-working
> environment.
> 
> i suppose that kind of setup appears to be totally
> systemd-incompatible. or is it a bug?

This is a bug.

Please boot with "systemd.log_level=debug systemd.log_target=kmsg" and
disable all graphical boot splashes. Then boot, wait until it locks up,
wait a bit more, then post the last generated output from screen.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.