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

Hussam Al-Tayeb ht990332 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 19:16:46 EDT 2009


On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 01:14 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote:
> Am Fri, 9 Oct 2009 22:00:15 +0200
> schrieb Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com>:
> 
> > After a quick google (less than 1 minute), it seems that some ubuntu
> > users are affected too :
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cryptsetup/+bug/433051
> 
> I have an idea. I'm not really sure, if this can be the reason, and I
> haven't tested it yet. But can this probably be an issue with the
> keymap?
> 
> Hussam, do you have keymap in the HOOKS in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf? Maybe
> you could try to remove it and enter the passphrase with the standard
> us keymap. You should of course write down the correct keys you have
> to press, if you don't use a US keyboard.
> 
> Heiko

Nope, I don't have keymap in HOOKS.

HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata encrypt filesystems"





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