Well, goot to know you got your data bak. Regards, Arno On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 13:04:57 CEST, Greg Laun wrote: > Thanks everyone for replying. > It turns out the behavior was different than what I thought. On boot, > Kubuntu drops into emergency mode after three password tries. After > that if you exit emergency mode without rebooting, Kubuntu prompts for > the passphrase again and drops into the emergency shell again after a > single try. I was trying different versions of the passphrase and must > have been oscillating between three of them in a way that made it > appear that Kubuntu could detect the correct phrase. Then once I got > into the emergency shell I must have been reconfirming the passphrase I > thought worked. > I should have mentioned in my first post that I did try booting into an > Arch boot disk and was unable to open the disk with the same > passphrase. > The good news is that I was just using the wrong passphrase. Over the > weekend I had been wrestling with a second LUKS disk that I know to be > corrupted and got the two passphrases confused. > Sorry! And thanks again for all the replies. > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:39 PM Heinz Diehl <[1]htd+ml@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On 24.04.2019, Greg Laun wrote: > > I have a LUKS-encrypted hard drive partition that is showing the > following > > behavior on Kubuntu 19.04: > [.....] > I would suggest trying to open the device after booting from an > external system, e.g. a Fedora or Arch linux boot disk. Just to rule > out it isn't Kubuntu doing something weird. > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > [2]dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > [3]https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt > > References > > 1. mailto:htd+ml@xxxxxxxxxx > 2. mailto:dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > 3. https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > https://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 https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
