Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and LUKS

[Frank Steinmetzger]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 09:22:37AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 03.09.2013 23:31, schrieb Frank Steinmetzger:
>
> > This link gave me the deciding hint -- I didn't have
> > cryptsetup-generator in my system, because I didn’t have the
> > cryptsetup useflags enabled. I rebuilt systemd and udisks and now
> > I’m prompted for the LUKS password during boot. \o/
>
> Congratulations!
>
> sidenote: The mentioned pam_mount way of doing things lets you boot
> through to a login. No waiting for the passphrase ... when I login the
> LUKS-device is opened and mounted ... only one time user/pw ...
> personally I like it that way.

Finding stuff on pam_mount doesn’t seem to be too hard. But how do I
prevent systemd from trying it first? Just by disabling the service?

> > Now I need to find out whether it’s feasible for me to use it. I’ll
> > definitely have to procure some custom unit files, e.g. for
> > monitorix.
> […]
> pls share your unit as well (or even file it as a bug on
> bugs.gentoo.org) to help the gentoo devs (and users) here.

Well, it’s an experiment, but I’m still quite hesitant to switch. It
really shuts down fast (1 to 2 seconds or so), but I don’t see much
improvement in booting time (still around 40 seconds until KDM is
finished). I like the small stuff around it though, for instance
timedatectl is neat and that there is no consolekit thread spam in htop.

I also see now why some people rant about it, e.g. that it has an own
logging daemon (“one big block of everything”) which uses a binary data
format. OTOH, logging becomes very handy with it in that you can see all
messages associated with a particular service. Systemdadm is a start,
but impractical on a netbook screen.

I was hoping I could have openrc and systemd in parallel on the system
(so I don’t have to maintain two systems, especially on a slow netbook),
but b/c I removed consolekit altogether, a lot of stuff doesn’t work
anymore if I try booting with openrc.

Perhaps someone can give me a hint about the following:
- I’m missing openrc’s feature of using the menu key to switch between
  the last two TTYs, that’s very useful.
- No login prompt on TTY1.
- A resource link on how to set up networking without network manager. I
  always did it the conf.d/net way.

Cheers.
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