/lib/rcscripts/addons/dm-crypt-start.sh tries to switch to verbose mode (and back) in order to print messages (for inserting key media etc.) or reading the passphrase from the keyboard: 70: splash svc_input_begin ${SVCNAME} >/dev/null 2>&1 183: splash svc_input_end ${SVCNAME} >/dev/null 2>&1 If you remove the piping, you can see that it does not find "splash". It is a function in /sbin/splash-functions.sh but this file is never included. Inserting "source /sbin/splash-functions.sh" before the calls works if media-gfx/splashutils is installed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot dmcrypt system with splash=silent Actual Results: Stays in silent mode, you have to press F2 Expected Results: Should switch to verbose mode automatically
should be fixed with 1.4.1