[Bug 1796438] Re: cryptsetup-initramfs: error message is displayed at initramfs stage when cryptsetup is not included to the initrd

[Gordon Lack]

NO.
The issue is still there in 18.10.

Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.131ubuntu15) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.18.0-13-generic
cryptsetup: WARNING: The initramfs image may not contain cryptsetup binaries nor crypto modules. If that's on purpose, you may want to uninstall the 'cryptsetup-initramfs' package in order to disable the cryptsetup initramfs integration and avoid this warning.

[gmllaptop]: cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.10"
VERSION_ID="18.10"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=cosmic
UBUNTU_CODENAME=cosmic

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Title:
  cryptsetup-initramfs: error message is displayed at initramfs stage
  when cryptsetup is not included to the initrd

Status in cryptsetup package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In ubuntu 18.10, error message is displayed at initramfs stage when
  cryptsetup is not included to the initrd.

  vmware at ubuntu-18.10:~$ sudo update-initramfs -u
  [sudo] password for vmware: 
  update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.18.0-8-generic
  cryptsetup: WARNING: The initramfs image may not contain cryptsetup binaries 
      nor crypto modules. If that's on purpose, you may want to uninstall the 
      'cryptsetup-initramfs' package in order to disable the cryptsetup initramfs 
      integration and avoid this warning.
  rmdir: failed to remove '/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_mxUIaj/var/cache/ldconfig': No such file or directory
  vmware at ubuntu-1810:~$ 

  There is a bug in Debian: 
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901830

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