Comment 7 for bug 1104156

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1104156] Re: "Continue to wait, or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery" when waiting for LUKS passphrase

On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 07:43:27PM -0000, Cédric Dufour wrote:

> Is plymouth also used in "recovery mode" or when one removes the 'splash'
> parameter from the kernel boot options?

Yes, it is. We still need plymouth, even when we're not using the graphical
splash functionality.

> cryptsetup "provisions" for when plymouth is not installed/active; in
> '/lib/cryptsetup/cryptdisks.functions', function 'do_luks':

True. This is for compatibility between Ubuntu and Debian, since Debian
does not require plymouth as part of the base system (currently).