[packman] mkinitrd and cryptsetup problem

[Christopher Laprise]

Hi Gregory,

I used your revised mkinitrd script for a SUSE 10.1 encrypted root
partition. However I did not compile cryptsetup-luks as suggested in the
following Howto:
http://en.opensuse.org/Encrypted_Root_File_System_with_SUSE_HOWTO

Instead, I installed this package from packman which yielded
'/usr/sbin/cryptsetup-luks' but NOT '/usr/sbin/cryptsetup'.

This prevented the boot process from coping with the encrypted
partition. I think its because the modified mkinitrd didn't recognize
the cryptsetup-luks command, and didn't display an error when cryptsetup
wasn't available. However creating a hard link for /usr/sbin/cryptsetup
allowed the script to do its job properly.

I'll leave it to you for deciding who/where a fix would be best made, as
I'm not sure whether the package or the script would be considered at
fault. :-)


Thanks,
Chris