geli password prompt does not work

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Thu Apr 27 19:04:02 UTC 2006


On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:22:08PM +0200, Martin wrote:
+> Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
+> > Flags field suggest that you were giving the passphrase on boot, before
+> > root file system was mounted. Is that right?
+> 
+> Yes. That's correct.
+> 
+> > Can you enter DDB, look for g_event and g_eli_worker processes PIDs in
+> > 'ps' output and send me the output of 'trace <pid>' for both of them?
+> > You can enter debugger with ctrl+alt+del if you have DDB compiled into
+> > the kernel.
+> 
+> No, I cannot enter the debugger. The only thing that seems to work is
+> scrolling. I'm using "kernel.debug".
+> 
+> > Could you also put kern.geom.debugflags=1 and kern.geom.eli.debug=3 into
+> > /boot/loader.conf and send me the output as well?
+> 
+> That's what I get, but it does not differ much from the working version:
+> 
+> GEOM_ELI[3]: Tasting ad0s3g.
+> g_detach(0xc47c79c0)
+> g_destroy_consumer(0xc47c79c0)
+> g_destroy_geom(0xc47ce880(eli:taste))
+> Enter passphrase for ad0s2g: g_post_event_x(0xc06126ac,0xc47a8900,2,0)
+> ref 0xc47a8900
+> cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
+> cd0: <HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4240N 02111> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
+> cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers
+> cd0: cd present [38919x2048 byte records]
+> 
+> And after detecting the DVD-ROM, geom_eli waits as usually, but I
+> cannot enter the password. Maybe the keyboard is just blocked?
+> That might explain why I cannot enter the debugger.

Could be, kbdmux is now on by default, AFAIK. Could you try without it?

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
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