cryptsetup should bring in dmcrypt but it doesn't

[wynnmc]

As far as I can see, installing cryptsetup should install /etc/init.d/dmcrypt and /etc/conf.d/dmcrypt but on the machine I have just installed Gentoo on, it doesn't. On the other working machine with Gentoo installed it does.

Why?

[grknight]

Please show emerge --info and qlist -e cryptsetup |grep -e init.d -e conf.d from that machine

[wynnmc]

Thank you.

Here is emerge -info:

[wynnmc]

[grknight]

Also, what does emerge -pv sys-fs/cryptsetup say?

[wynnmc]

I think the problem has come from the fact that cryptsetup was emerged while running under the installation iso. I have booted up with that and, of course, both

[Hu]

No, that shouldn't matter. If you booted the installation media, but then chroot'd into your system's drive, then emerge would write to your drive, and you would have those files. If you booted the installation media and managed to emerge onto its storage, then none of those changes would have persisted into your system, and you wouldn't have the cryptsetup program.

[wynnmc]

Well, in another thread, I have found out how to get wifi working and I have emerged cryptsetup again and this time

[wynnmc]

I don't know if this should go in a new thread but I have now altered /etc/conf.d/dmcrypt to open the encrypted home partition asking for the passphrase as it does on the old machine. I have made these changes

[grknight]

Did you do rc-update add dmcrypt boot while inside the chroot or booted into the installation?
Also does /sbin/cryptsetup or /usr/bin/cryptsetup exist?

With OpenRC, you can turn on logging in /etc/rc.conf such that the file can be read and reviewed to debug this kind of thing

[wynnmc]

Thank you, grknight, I think that could be the problem ... part of what I now see as a wider problem: I started out with the idea of installing an encrypted root but had problems and changed to another idea which, on reflection, I saw wouldn't work, and finally decided to have the same layout as on this machine. I think it likely that, with these changes to what I was doing, I could have done something in the wrong way.

I have decided that the only way out of this mess (of my own doing, of course) is to wipe storage and start at the beginning again.

So, you may see me here next as or perhaps again...

Thank you for all your help,

wynnmc

[wynnmc]

I have just successfully installed Gentoo on the new machine. I made sure that dmcrypt was started at boot and home, which is encrypted, is successfully decrypted during boot with the appropriate changes to /etc/conf.d/dmcrypt.conf -- I also have encrypted swap.

I have got here with your help, Neddy Seagoon, grknight and others -- my very grateful thanks.

I started with the idea of installing it with encrypted root but dodging between the page describing the changes necessary to the Handbook to do this and the Handbook page became onerous and I changed to the same layout as on this machine.

Thank you all for your help,

wynnmc