On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 01:45 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote:
Am Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:15:35 +0300 schrieb Hussam Al-Tayeb <ht990332@gmail.com>:
my root partition passphrase (arch asks for at initramfs stage) always works and it accepts it correctly. This issue happens when you try to unlock a partition later on. This means that if you don't have an encrypted /home on a different partition, you won't see this problem.
Just another thought. I know that this is also pretty improbable.
I don't know the filesystem of your / partition. Can this be an issue with ext4 in kernel 2.6.31 and LUKS?
Have you checked your harddisk with smartctl, badblocks or something similar? Maybe it is indeed dying. Of course it's also improbable if this issue appeared only after upgrading from kernel 2.6.30 to 2.6.31 but maybe worth a try.
Otherwise I don't have any other ideas.
Heiko
I did a fsck and badblocks. nothing wrong there. I don't think it is failing because cryptsetup on an old opensuse live cd successfully unlocks /dev/sdb1 eventhough it doesn't support ext4. I'm reading manpage for smarctl and will run a test and post results.