On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 21:47:04 -0500, John wrote: > Good evening, > > While running rawhide, I can no longer boot using rawhide packages from > 11/06/2010. I keep getting asked for the LUKS passphrase. After I enter > two characters, it says the passphrase is invalid. My passphrase is about > 30 characters in length. > > In my efforts to "keep all the pieces", I'm trying to access the lvm logical > volume that is encrypted to save at least some of the pieces. :-) > > I perform the following steps: > 1) Boot the live CD (F14) (X64) > 2) Open a terminal window > 3) su -l root > 4) modprobe dm-crypt > 5) sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda6 crypt1 (sda6 is the encrypted LVM) /dev/sda6 is a logical partition, not a LV. > 6) modprobe dm-mod > 7) [root@localhost async_tx]# vgscan > Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... > Found volume group "vg_dubby" using metadata type lvm2 > 8) [root@localhost async_tx]# vgchange -a y vg_dubby > 3 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_dubby" now active > 9) [root@localhost async_tx]# lvscan > ACTIVE '/dev/vg_dubby/lv_root' [50.00 GiB] inherit > ACTIVE '/dev/vg_dubby/lv_swap' [9.81 GiB] inherit > ACTIVE '/dev/vg_dubby/lv_home' [664.25 GiB] inherit > 10) [root@localhost async_tx]# ls -ld /media/* > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 22:14 /media/home > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 22:14 /media/root > 11) [root@localhost async_tx]# mount /dev/vg_dubby/lv_root /media/root > mount: unknown filesystem type 'crypto_LUKS' > > I'm at wits end. Any suggestions? You would need to luksOpen /dev/vg_dubby/lv_root and mount the new mapper device /dev/mapper/crypt1 on /media/root -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test