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

[Roman Kyrylych]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 02:15, Hussam Al-Tayeb <ht990332 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

I have 4 encrypted partitions besides root and don't have this problem,
but I have real passwords instead of ASK in /etc/crypttab
(otherwise I would be very lazy to enter them 5 times instead of one :-P)

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)