Ubuntu
plymouth package

  1. Bug #876626
  2. Comment #37

Comment 37 for bug 876626

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 876626] Re: Unlocking the second crypto disk (/home) echos password on console

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 06:11:48PM -0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> The correct upstream fix obviously would be to conditionally set up the
> system console in some manner, dependent on whether or not it's already
> "owned" by a running process or whether init is truly the first process
> to be run.

Sounds like the correct fix would indeed be to check whether the console is
locked as James suggested, and do the setup only if it's not.

And for an Ubuntu-specific fix, it seems it would still be correct to treat
the console as owned by plymouth.

Thanks for the insight, Scott.