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On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 9:56 AM, deloptes deloptes@gmail.com wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
Thank you Felix for the explanation
So, the subject question is whether this absence of difference between multi-user.target and graphical.target using TDE on Stretch is expected and normal?
If it does something that is not expected, it is obviously not normal. Someone log a bug, add a patch and it is done.
Perhaps no one tested multi user aka no graphical.target ... For example if I install TDE, I expect it to come up with login manager ... why would I still expect a console login, when I have installed TDE?
because something may go wrong with the login manager. filesystem corruption could result, meaning that the login manager completely fails and will not permit a login of any kind (i have actually genuinely had this happen: it turned out to be that /home was not writeable), and you would otherwise need to take the drastic action of rebooting into "init 1" to recover...
BUT...
let's assume that there are mission-critical files still being served up from the machine: other users (over a network) are connected to something on the machine (its printers, whatever doesn't matter) so you CAN'T just reboot it...
i would expect under these circumstances to just be able to press "Ctrl-Alt-F1" and to log in at a text console as root.
if that's *not possible* then it's a severe bug.
l.