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

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 03:45 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote:
> Am Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:13:38 +0300
> schrieb Hussam Al-Tayeb <ht990332 at gmail.com>:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> You're saying "an old opensuse live cd". So I assume, that it hasn't
> already kernel 2.6.31?
> 
> Maybe you should try it with a live cd which already has kernel 2.6.31,
> if there is any released. It probably is a bug in ext4 in 2.6.31 which
> wasn't present in 2.6.30. It's not likely, but with ext3 I don't have
> this issue.
> 
> I guess you already have reinstalled the kernel and/or cryptsetup just
> in case?
> 
> If this also doesn't help, I guess someone else who has better
> knowledge of this than me - should be easy to find ;-) - could
> try to help.
> 
> Heiko
Yes, I've reinstalled both the kernel and cryptsetup.
luks is device blocks encryption if I'm not mistaken so filesystem type
shouldn't matter.