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

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Tue Oct 13 12:36:15 EDT 2009


solsTiCe d'Hiver schrieb:
> i am beginning to think there really is a problem.
> i have a luks encrypted partition that i automatically mount at boot
> via /etc/crypttab with a *keyfile*
> 
> so this has never failed and it can't fail except if the keyfile is
> damaged.
> and today the luks partition failed to be opened  for the *first* time
> *ever* by cryptsetup because of a password problem.
> once i rebooted it worked.
> so the keyfile is not wrong. and i double check it with my backup
> keyfile
> 
> this looks like your problem Hussam. it sometimes fails sometimes works.
> 

When did any of you guys upgrade to cryptsetup 1.0.7? Can you grep this 
from pacman.log please?

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