[systemd-devel] dmsetup or cryptsetup hangs in the initrd

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 16.10.15 17:11, Sean MacLennan (afore.sean at gmail.com) wrote:

> In RedHat 7 I am trying to setup a partition with dmsetup. I have attached
> a tarball that includes three files:
> 
> * go.sh is a simple script to install everything
> * install is the dracut module install
> * 95dmcrypt.sh is the file I want to run at boot time
> 
> The module is 99securevm.
> 
> Obviously, this has all been stripped down to make it as simple as
> possible. Sorry for the hard coding. If you want to test it, you need to
> provide a /dev/sdb1 partition that is at least 2G. If you comment out the
> `exit 0' in go.sh it will setup the partition for you.
> 
> Note that if 95dmcrypt.sh has either the dmsetup or the 2 cryptsetup lines
> commented in, it will hang the machine.
> 
> I am hoping I have just put something in the wrong place. pre-mount is
> where we previously ran the script from.

This is neither the mailing list for dracut development nor, and more
to the point, for device mapper/LVM issues. I doubt anyone here can
help you with this. Please ask DM/LVM people for help.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat