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

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 00:56 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote:
> Am Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:08:00 +0200
> schrieb Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>:
> 
> > It is very unlikely to be kernel related. And 2.6.31 has been in
> > testing far too long, it should really be moved.
> 
> I just installed kernel26 2.6.31.3 from testing and can't reproduce this
> issue. I have encrypted my whole system except of the /boot partition
> of course.
> 
> I can unlock every partition by reading the keys from USB stick and by
> entering the passphrases. So I also don't think that this is kernel
> related.
> 
> Heiko

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.