Hi, looks to me like you need to complain to the systemd-people, not to us here. Good luck with that.... Regards, Arno On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 00:38:20 CEST, Jerry Lowry wrote: > Hi, > > I have created an encrypted drive using the following commands: > > #>cryptsetup --verify=passphrase -- hash=sha256 --keyfile=/dir/file > create /dev/mapper/testcui /dev/sdb > > #>mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/testcui > > I did this all at single user level. running centos 7 on a VM. > > this all work well until I reboot the system and then it fails to mount > the device and drops down it to emergency mode. This is the journalctl > output I get. ( yeah I know about the acls on the key file ) device > name "testcui" > > Sep 20 14:19:53 jubilee systemd[1]: Starting Cryptography Setup for > /dev/mapper/testcui... > -- Subject: Unit [1]systemd-cryptsetup@-dev-mapper-testcui.service has > begun start-up > -- Defined-By: systemd > -- Support: > [2]http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel > -- > -- Unit [3]systemd-cryptsetup@-dev-mapper-testcui.service has begun > starting up. > Sep 20 14:19:53 jubilee systemd-cryptsetup[501]: Key file /etc/keys is > world-readable. This is not a good idea! > Sep 20 14:19:53 jubilee systemd-cryptsetup[501]: Set cipher aes, mode > cbc-essiv:sha256, key size 256 bits for device /dev/sdb. > Sep 20 14:19:53 jubilee systemd-cryptsetup[501]: Failed to activate > with key file '/etc/keys': Invalid argument > Sep 20 14:19:53 jubilee systemd[1]: Started Forward Password Requests > to Plymouth. > > What is the invalid argument that it is complaining about? > > Once in emergency mode I can : > > #>cryptsetup create testcui /dev/sdb > > ( passcode) > > And it continues just fine. > > -- crypttab -- > > # test disk > # > /dev/mapper/testcui /dev/sdb /etc/keys plain > > --fstab-- > > # > # /etc/fstab > # Created by anaconda on Tue Dec 15 12:05:51 2015 > # > # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under > '/dev/disk' > # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more > info > # > UUID=c4cc85f2-9dbb-4bf8-8b3e-edaa5af3dae9 / > xfs defaults 1 1 > UUID=2f178edb-b16e-4ea1-85c3-d8243b07a75b /boot > xfs defaults 1 2 > UUID=a34fac21-a385-494a-a6cc-cae22b87c8c9 swap > swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/mapper/testcui /cui ext4 defaults 1 2 > > jerry > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > Jerold Lowry > Principal Network/Systems Engineer > Engineering Design Team (EDT), Inc. a HEICO company > 3423 NW John Olsen Pl > Hillsboro, Oregon 97124 (U.S.A.) > Phone: 503-690-1234 / 800-435-4320 > Fax: 503-690-1243 > Web: [4]www.edt.com > > References > > 1. mailto:systemd-cryptsetup@-dev-mapper-testcui.service > 2. http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel > 3. mailto:systemd-cryptsetup@-dev-mapper-testcui.service > 4. http://www.edt.com/ > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato 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
