[arch-general] can't unlock a luks encrypted partition. (urgent).

[Thomas Bächler]

Hussam Al-Tayeb schrieb:
> Hi, I'm having a problem with disk encryption using luks. I have
> my /home disk (on a separate disk 'sdb') encrypted using luks.
> 
> I have this in /etc/cryptsetup
> home            /dev/sdb1               ASK
> 
> and this in /etc/fstab
> /dev/mapper/home /home ext4 defaults,user_xattr 0 1
> 
> Suddenly today, it won't accept the passphrase on boot. I'm sure that
> I'm entering it correctly. It took me 32 tries the first time and many
> more the second reboot after kernel 2.6.31.3 update.

I don't really know what's happening right now. However, you should 
comment out that crypttab line, mark /home as noauto in fstab, boot your 
system and try unlocking there manually. That way, it will be much 
easier to investigate the problem.

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