Initrd crypto error

[Teddy Hogeborn]

Dick Middleton <dick at fouter.net> writes:

> > > > 2. Boot with the extra Linux command line argument "break".
> > > >    This will start a shell in the initrd, and mandos-client can
> > > >    the be run manually from the initrd to pinpoint the problem.
> > [...]
> > > I attach the list of files in the initrd in the hope someone can
> > > spot a missing library or some such.
> > [...]
> > 
> > It seems that /usr/bin/gpg is missing.  This would be a significant
> > problem.  Apparently initramfs-tools creates initramfs files
> > differently now -
>
> I don't know how initramfs works but....
>
> Looking in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks it seems that bin/gpg is
> included with the cryptgnugpg hook but that is not a prereq for
> anything.
>
> Mandos has a prereq for cryptroot but that doesn't refer to
> cryptgnugpg
>
> Is that an issue or am I just mis-understanding?

There was an issue with the mandos initramfs hook - see imminent
Mandos release.

/Teddy Hogeborn

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