Bug 610588

Summary:	sys-kernel/dracut-044-r2 - kbd_mode: can't open '/dev/tty': No such device or address
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Martin Mokrejš <mmokrejs>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Patrick McLean <chutzpah>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	alexander
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Martin Mokrejš 2017-02-22 18:19:35 UTC

It seems dracut makes a broken initramdisk image now if crypt-gpg module is selected to be included in the image.

dracut -a "crypt crypt-gpg lvm dm" --kver 4.10.10-default-pciehp  --force

After booting I get in between the usual kernel-bootup messages:

kbd_mode: can't open '/dev/tty': No such device or address
setfont: LatArCyrHeb-16: No such file or directory


Thanks to 'rd.shell rd.debug rd.retry=4' on kernel commandline I can get into a shell.

Because of the above error my $(tty) is unset.

Therefore the trick with setting 'GPG_TTY=$(tty) gpg ...' to maybe work around missing gpg-agent binary does not work because "$tty" is empty. I do not see in 'printenv | grep -i tty' any variable holding a pointer to my tty device. However, GPG_TTY=`tty` sets the variable but I assume this is only possible because I made dracut to include busybox and bash for me in the image.

Running tty command returns /dev/tty1, btw.