Hi Andrea, Do you have a header backup from before this happened? Regards, Arno On Sun, Dec 08, 2019 at 00:41:27 CET, ampica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sorry to be the latest user which had a problem with the LUKS > header but I'm really desperate to recover my data and contacting this > mailing list is my last hope at this point. > > I use a dual-boot setup on a Lenovo T480 with Windows 10 and Arch Linux > on the same SSD drive, Arch is encrypted with LVM on LUKS as described > in the Arch Wiki > ([1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_ > system#LVM_on_LUKS). > > To make the story short and simple, since yesterday I've been suddenly > unable to decrypt my LVM on LUKS partition and started having "No key > available with this passphrase" despite the correctness of the > passphrase. Needless to say I made several attempts and checks and made > sure the password is correct. If you want to have a look at logs and > see all details I simply redirect you to the posts I made on Reddit > [2]https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/e76se0/unable_to_access_ > encrypted_luks_partition_wrong/ and on the Arch Linux forum > [3]https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=251218. > > As suggested in the FAQ and forums, I tried several things, like using > the keyslot check tool and analyzing the hexdump command output (no > evident damage from both), tried decrypting the header on another > system with the same result and filtered out all other possible > problems like keyboard layout, user error and system specific > configuration. The only relevant thing to say is that last time I shut > down my laptop before facing the issue I updated the linux kernel to > 5.4.2 and run "mkinitcpio -p linux" but I didn't notice anything > unusual respect to other times in the output from command line. > > I've really no clue on what happened since I didn't do anything > accidentally. I'm already on the "Acceptance" phase but I still have > that 0.01% hope left to recover my system, so any help or suggestion is > really much appreciated. If you need more information, please let me > know (I've no problem sharing my LUKS header and passphrase for a > further analysis). Thank you very much in advance for everything. > > Best Regards, > > Andrea Piccione > > References > > 1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system#LVM_on_LUKS > 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/e76se0/unable_to_access_encrypted_luks_partition_wrong/ > 3. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=251218 > _______________________________________________ > 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
