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@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > 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.