Hi, as far as I can tell, the header and keyslot look healthy. Of course some overwritten bytes in the Key-slot would not show, but they should not happen on the operations you describe. Make very sure you are inputing the correct passphrase. Maybe the keyborad-layout subtly changed? Did this same passphrase work before for you, i.e. do you have a clear good-before bad-after situation? You can send me the complete header (if you want, but not the data part please and not the passphrase) and I can have a look for obvious corruption. You find the information on how to do a header backup in the FAQ: http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions There may also be something wring with the LVM, e.g. overlapping partitions or the like. This could have done arbitrary damage, but should be visible in the key-slot data. Arno On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:09:21AM +0530, divyashree kumar wrote: > Sir , > > > I am Priyadarshee Divyashree Kumar from Odisha , India . I am in a > serious trouble . My brother is a Judicial Magistrate in the court and he is > provided with a HCL laptop from the court with preinstalled customized RHEL5 > client . He just asked me to install some player so that he can listen some > musics or watch some videos . I just installed VLC,MPLAYER,XINE and MIRO , > but while installing I used external repositories from rpmforge, pbone and > epel . All gone successfull . > > > The laptop has 160 GB harddrive and among which 128 GB are LVM and is > LUKS encrypted which is his home directory containing various legal > documents from courts and the cases and a lot . After some hours of ,when I > turn on the laptop , it gives an error as > > starting disc encryption , command failed : Error opening device ;no > > such file or directory ; > > > and it asks for entering the passphrase again and again 3 times even with > providing with correct passwords . > > I just googled and try with a live CD , but no result , the result returned > a follows : > > #cryptsetup -v luksDump /dev/mapper/homevg-homevol > > LUKS header information for /dev/mapper/homevg-homevol > > > > Version: 1 > > Cipher name: aes > > Cipher mode: cbc-essiv:sha256 > > Hash spec: sha1 > > Payload offset: 1032 > > MK bits: 128 > > MK digest: 2a 77 66 d8 24 23 36 b1 c3 91 6d 0d 9d 1e ff 19 3f fe 16 67 > > MK salt: de 14 b0 ac 51 18 3c c0 97 77 40 31 38 07 fe f4 > > 28 43 06 a9 a2 98 22 6c 67 fc af 71 fd 76 4d f9 > > MK iterations: 10 > > UUID: c0be1231-cf29-48ac-8cba-1bf98b180051 > > > > Key Slot 0: ENABLED > > Iterations: 181173 > > Salt: f7 4a 8b 83 5f d4 ed e2 7f 42 42 38 eb bc 46 d2 > > fd b1 7c c5 83 f0 3e 34 83 0f ff 0f 32 95 54 17 > > Key material offset: 8 > > AF stripes: 4000 > > Key Slot 1: DISABLED > > Key Slot 2: DISABLED > > Key Slot 3: DISABLED > > Key Slot 4: DISABLED > > Key Slot 5: DISABLED > > Key Slot 6: DISABLED > > Key Slot 7: DISABLED > > > > And with looksOpen , > > # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mapper/homevg-homevol home > > Enter LUKS passphrase for /dev/mapper/homevg-homevol: > > Enter LUKS passphrase for /dev/mapper/homevg-homevol: > > Enter LUKS passphrase for /dev/mapper/homevg-homevol: > > Command failed: No key available with this passphrase. > > > > > I am trying since last 10-12 hrs wihout a single hope , but as it contains > last 5 months of courtwork , I am completely out of mind what to do ,how to > do , how to recover the home ? > > I dont know if this is a bug or anything , but I have to return his laptop > as it was . > > > Kindly ,any help will be thankful . > > Sincerely.. > Priyadarshee Divyashree Kumar > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
