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hungerfish

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Registered: 2009-09-13

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[Solved]Cryptsetup just stopped working

Hi,
I have an usb-connected external hardrive with one encrypted partition on it. Up until today, I had no problems using it. Today it just will not accept my pass-phrase(s).

Before this happened I did two things. First I upgraded following packages:

[2009-10-13 03:07] synchronizing package lists
[2009-10-13 03:07] starting full system upgrade
[2009-10-13 03:10] upgraded glib2 (2.20.4-1 -> 2.22.2-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] upgraded atk (1.26.0-1 -> 1.28.0-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] installed eggdbus (0.5-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] installed polkit (0.94-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] upgraded consolekit (0.3.0-5 -> 0.3.1-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] upgraded libsigc++2.0 (2.2.3-1 -> 2.2.4.2-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] upgraded glibmm (2.20.1-1 -> 2.22.1-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] upgraded gnome-doc-utils (0.16.1-1 -> 0.18.0-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] upgraded pango (1.24.5-1 -> 1.26.0-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] upgraded gtk2 (2.16.5-1 -> 2.18.2-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] upgraded gnome-icon-theme (2.26.0-1 -> 2.28.0-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] upgraded gtk-engines (2.18.2-1 -> 2.18.4-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] upgraded pangomm (2.24.0-1 -> 2.26.0-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] upgraded gtkmm (2.16.0-1 -> 2.18.2-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] upgraded kbd (1.15-2 -> 1.15.1-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] upgraded pango-perl (1.220-1 -> 1.221-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] upgraded poppler (0.10.7-2 -> 0.12.0-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] upgraded poppler-glib (0.10.7-1 -> 0.12.0-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] upgraded pygobject (2.18.0-1 -> 2.20.0-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] upgraded pygtk (2.14.1-4 -> 2.16.0-1)
[2009-10-13 03:10] upgraded vte (0.20.5-1 -> 0.22.2-1)

and also:

[2009-10-13 14:33] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.31.3-1 -> 2.6.31.4-1)

Then I decided to install gnome2.28.
I rebooted, logged into gnome, plugged in the external drive, and was greeted by a promt for my pass-phrase. (I normally always did this manually). It didn't accept it, so I thought, I'll do it manually, and still it won't take any of my pass-phrases (I have multiple ones..)

I really need the data, and I'm 1000% sure that I un-mounted und luksClosed the drive before shutting down, so I'm ruling out corruption. (There's another unencrypted partition on the drive, which works flawlessly)

I'm leaning in the direction of a bug here, or some mixup of access-rights.
I've reverted to my previous kernel version, and I've deactivated all the gnome-stuff(-> I boot to console,no gdm, no gvfs, etc..)
What else can I do??? Which of those packages could be causing trouble??

EDIT:

For solution, see:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16735

Last edited by hungerfish (2009-10-21 15:08:01)

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