Comment 19 for bug 139635

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Stephen Howard (sjhoward) wrote :

I've spent the last four days trying to figure out why my previously working (in feisty) cryptdisks were silently failing to mount during gutsy's boot, but would happily mount manually if I invoked the scripts after login.

This is a critical bug because:
1. anyone who *properly* uses Ubuntu's *standard* encryption init.d scripts to mount an encrypted /tmp will leave their Ubuntu system unbootable - this is the case even though the user did everything right. Any bug that leaves a system unbootable must be rated critical.
2. encrypted swap fails to mount, *and fails silently* so there are people out there with laptops relying on Ubuntu's encryption infrastructure who are going to be a bit upset;
3. cryptdisks is normal init.d infrastructure - people who use it are not doing something weird.
4. linking against a mount point that doesn't necessarily exist at the Sxx time cryptdisks is executed is plain silly.