-- f c Le 3 mai 2011 Ã 10:19, Arno Wagner <arno@xxxxxxxxxxx> a Ãcrit : > 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. > Oki. But in this case, the swap is on a dedicated partition. No double encryption. > 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. 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