Before I mention my issue here is my setup :  I have 2 installations one use to be 11.4 (now 12.1)  and it's a regular installation of opensuse 64 bit (all are 64 bit)  which is I suppose sort of my backup installation which I use when I mess things up in the main and need to fix it, my main installation is on an encrypted 2tb disk (full encryption serpent-xts-benbi entire / even /home is on it)  /dev/sdb1 . and also my real /boot is on the backup /dev/sda1 now here is my problem , until recently it all worked fine the sda1 had 11.4/sysv init on it and I was running 12.1 and later factory on my sdb1 .now when I boot the boot messages pass and I even see a line asking me password for the sdb1 but it's followed by other messages and I can't input the password and it goes into waiting mode for the encrypted partition to somehow magically show up , and when I type the password it's displayed in plain text and it won't have any effect at all. I am thinking luks/cryptsetup isn't for some reason allowed to receive input from stdin. and it sounds like a systemd(or maybe luks) thing to me. now I am stuck using my backup installation , I normally use custom built kernels (which I know isn't supported) . serpent,xts and xfs(my file system for the encrypted /) are built into the kernel so it's not a module or kernel issue. I'd really appreciate any help on this . -Cheers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org