On 2018-07-09 06:57, Ralph wrote:

[Leap 15 / btrfs, fresh install about a month old, running off a NVMe m.2 2280, on a Dell T3620 that was previously booting (and still multiboots) 42.3 and some others off a rotating drive]

After an aborted boot and a reboot I got the following messages in the reboot's journal:

dellT3620 systemd-tty-ask-password-agent[866]: Invalid password file /run/systemd/ask-password/ask.Kilegy

dellT3620 systemd-tty-ask-password-agent[866]: Failed to show password: Bad message

These journal messages are gone after another subsequent reboot but that's scary words. Who/what is 'Kilegy' (there's no such file, now)? What exactly is/was this all about?

cer@Legolas:~> locate systemd-tty-ask-password-agent /usr/bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent /usr/share/man/man1/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent.1.gz cer@Legolas:~> NAME systemd-tty-ask-password-agent - List or process pending systemd password requests SYNOPSIS systemd-tty-ask-password-agent [OPTIONS...] [VARIABLE=VALUE...] DESCRIPTION systemd-tty-ask-password-agent is a password agent that handles password requests of the system, for example for hard disk encryption passwords or SSL certificate passwords that need to be queried at boot-time or during runtime. systemd-tty-ask-password-agent implements the Password Agents Specification[1], and is one of many possible response agents which answer to queries formulated with systemd-ask-password(1). Are you using disk encryption? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)