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#1 2020-03-11 18:11:29

lquidfire
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[SOLVED]dracut-049 lacks 'systemd-tty-ask-password-agent'

The following lines appear during boot (I copy them from 'journalctl -xb'):

Mar 11 19:52:18 birdsong systemd[1]: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-ask-password-console.service:20: Executable "systemd-tty-ask-password-agent" not found in path "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin"
Mar 11 19:52:18 birdsong systemd[1]: systemd-ask-password-console.service: Unit configuration has fatal error, unit will not be started.
Mar 11 19:52:18 birdsong systemd[1]: systemd-ask-password-console.path: Refusing to start, unit systemd-ask-password-console.service to trigger not loaded.
Mar 11 19:52:18 birdsong systemd[1]: Failed to start Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch.

The file "systemd-tty-ask-password-agent" does exist in /usr/bin and is executable, so I guess that the root disk isn't available yet when this is requested?

I booted fine into the system. The error messages seem new to me, perhaps since the most recent systemd update.

I have attached the output of 'journalctl -xb' at ix.io.

Last edited by lquidfire (2020-03-18 06:34:44)

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#2 2020-03-17 12:18:06

lquidfire
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Re: [SOLVED]dracut-049 lacks 'systemd-tty-ask-password-agent'

With some help on systemd's github issue tracker, I think the issue is with dracut, which did not containt 'systemd-tty-ask-password-agent'.

This was fixed by the dracut devs in version 050, but Arch still has version 049 in the repos. I'll try a manual update tonight at home and will report and perhaps poke the package maintainer.

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#3 2020-03-18 06:32:27

lquidfire
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Re: [SOLVED]dracut-049 lacks 'systemd-tty-ask-password-agent'

Backporting the commit that fixed the issue in dracut did the trick, and the error messages have disappeared. Thanks to those in #archlinux-aur who helped.

The messages are harmless, so I won't bother the package maintainer - I reckon he is busy enough.

This should be sovled once our dracut package gets updated. It has been flagged out-of-date.

Last edited by lquidfire (2020-03-18 06:32:44)

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