Comment # 34 on bug 1175908 from Antonio Feijoo

Sorry for the lack of response here. We are cleaning up old bug entries.

> openSUSE-Tumbleweed-XFCE-Live-x86_64-Snapshot20200831-Media.iso works, can open > encrypted fs.

The issue disappeared with a new TW snapshot, so we are going to close it as
fixed.

> I guess this was a one-time-only problem in the transition from older kernel
> versions which did not yet have essiv.ko, that dracut did not "automatically"
> add that module for newer kernels at the first time.
> 
> now that I've manually created a first initrd with new kernel and essiv.ko,
> after reboot and running new kernel (and module essiv loaded), dracut does the > right thing and again creates working (for me) initrd for updated kernel.
> 
> but still it would good to add that magic knowlege for users who run opensuse
> 15.2 with 5.3.* kernels to avoid that they run into that issue once they
> upgrade from 15.2 to newer distros...

I think this is not easy to deduce from dracut. We will keep this report in
mind when testing an upgrade from a 5.3 kernel to a much higher version.