Mandos client on ubuntu 20.04 failed because cryptroot file is missing

[Teddy Hogeborn]

Florian Coulmier <Florian.Coulmier at vadesecure.com> writes:

> We are trying to setup mandos on an Ubuntu 20.04. We are running into
> trouble because mandos seems not to start at boot.
>
> Our investigation lead us to file
> /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/cryptroot which has changed. This
> file does not generate a file /conf/conf.d/cryptroot in the initrd
> image.
>
> This makes script /scripts/init-premount/mandos (from initrd image)
> fail as it requires file /conf/conf.d/cryptroot (line 54).
>
> We tried to identify how to fix that, but we only came with a
> workaround: generate file cryptroot from file /etc/crypttab.
>
> Do you see another solution?
> We use mandos-client v1.7.19-1 from official ubuntu repo.

That bug was fixed in Mandos 1.7.20-1.  I'm not sure what the best way
is to upgrade to a newer version in Ubuntu.

/Teddy Hogeborn

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