On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 01:45 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:15:35 +0300 > schrieb Hussam Al-Tayeb <ht990332@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > 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. > > Just another thought. I know that this is also pretty improbable. > > I don't know the filesystem of your / partition. Can this be an issue > with ext4 in kernel 2.6.31 and LUKS? > > Have you checked your harddisk with smartctl, badblocks or something > similar? Maybe it is indeed dying. Of course it's also improbable if > this issue appeared only after upgrading from kernel 2.6.30 to 2.6.31 > but maybe worth a try. > > Otherwise I don't have any other ideas. > > Heiko 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. I'm reading manpage for smarctl and will run a test and post results.
