On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 09:28:31AM +0200, Fran?ois Chenais wrote: > 2011/5/3 Arno Wagner <arno@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Ok, hard freeze is not good. > > > > One thing you could try is a serial console. This needs only > > a boot option to the kernel. > > > > CentOS 5.5 is also pretty recent. > > > > > Even if the kernel is patched, the version 2.6.18 is not so recent :P > The system used version 1.0.3 of cryptsetup :/ Oops, seems my version lookup-fu is badly broken. 2.6.18 is indeed mostly of historic interest and 1.0.3 is also pretty old. > Unless Milan knows what is going on here, a recreation in > > a test machine would probably be the best next step. > > > > Hmm, do you by any chance encrypt swap _twice_? > > > > > Hmmm, why _twice_ and what for ? The idea was that maybe there is a full-disk encryptiopn and then a partition encryption on top. Arno > BTW, pretty peculiar setup. I take it this machine installs > > itself from an image to the encrypted filesystem (with random > > key) on boot? JUst out of curiosity, how long does that > > take? > > > > > Just temporary FS are encrypted. So the time spent depends of the size of > the > FS. But sure, it's not user friendly :D > > > Fran?ois > > > > > > Arno > > > > > > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 09:21:41PM +0200, Fran?ois Chenais wrote: > > > 2011/5/2 Arno Wagner <arno@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > What do you mean by "crash"? > > > > > > > > > > > Crash = the computer is frozen, nothing happens. The only way to bring it > > > back to life is to power off/on. > > > > > > > > > I knew U'll ask me some logs but ... :) > > > > > > Actually, I have no logs because log files are written on encrypted > > file > > > system and the file system > > > is encrypted at boot time; each time with at new unknown random key ; > > so I > > > have NO file, NO LOG, Nothing, > > > as in a black hole !:P > > > > > > I don't have change anything because it's a production server. > > > I need to take time to reproduce the crash on a test machine. > > > > > > ... but I'm interested about the list feedback about same experience. > > > > > > > > > The system is CentOS 5.5. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Arno > > > > > > > > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 11:50:25AM +0200, Fran?ois Chenais wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > I have some computers crashing while using crypted swap partition. > > > > > > > > > > The system doesn't crash if I remove the swap. > > > > > The system crash again if I use a swap file on a crypted filesystem. > > > > > > > > > > Is this a known issue ? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance for your "lights" > > > > > > > > > > Fran?ois > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
