Re: [gentoo-user] Segfaulting cryptsetup in init

["Johan Blåbäck" <johan.bluecreek@gmail.com>]

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Mike Kazantsev wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:50:04 +0100
> Johan Blåbäck <johan.bluecreek@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I had noticed this problem w/ my laptop where some usbdevices dont show
>> up until a few seconds later than when the init is running. So I added a
>> 'sleep 10' to the init, and what I got was
>>
>> - - 10 s sleep
>> - - during these I get a messege: sda: sda1 sda2 (this is the bootable
>> usb-key)
>> - - cryptsetup segfaults
>> - - ls -l /dev/sd* gives 'ls: /dev/sd*: No such file or directory'
>> - - ls -l DEv/hd* gives '/dev/hda1'
>>
>> How is this possible? Shouldn't it show sda, sda1 and sda2 together with
>> hda and hda1? Why are these missing?
> 
> Why should it? Do you have full-fledged udev on initrd?
> I've always created them by hand with mknod or just copied from a
> working system - you know which ones you'll need, anyway.
> 
> And I've had segfaults with usb hdd too, as I recall, but if you put
> cryptsetup in a 'while true' loop it'll prompt for passphrase / mount
> device as soon as it'll be detected.
> 

True. I forgot that I just created the hda1 node. I figured it out
anyway. What I was missing was some IDE options in the kernel. Thanks
for the help all.

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