On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 19:48 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Hussam Al-Tayeb schrieb: > > Hi, I'm having a problem with disk encryption using luks. I have > > my /home disk (on a separate disk 'sdb') encrypted using luks. > > > > I have this in /etc/cryptsetup > > home /dev/sdb1 ASK > > > > and this in /etc/fstab > > /dev/mapper/home /home ext4 defaults,user_xattr 0 1 > > > > Suddenly today, it won't accept the passphrase on boot. I'm sure that > > I'm entering it correctly. It took me 32 tries the first time and many > > more the second reboot after kernel 2.6.31.3 update. > > I don't really know what's happening right now. However, you should > comment out that crypttab line, mark /home as noauto in fstab, boot your > system and try unlocking there manually. That way, it will be much > easier to investigate the problem. > Ok, I did that. and manually run 'cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 home' It literally took over 97 tries before it worked. How do I investigate what's happening? cryptsetup -v doesn't give extra output?
