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geekodour

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Registered: 2017-04-28

Posts: 2

encrypted device not founded after reboot - disk not found by uuid

I am running my laptop smoothly on arch linux for several years now with home partition encryption, for something I was working on I ran `docker images` and it showed an empty list even though i knew that there were images on my disk, sensing something was wrong I rebooted by machine and I was greeted with this:

[FAILED] Failed to start Cryptography Setup for enchome
[ *** ] A start job is running for /dev/disk/by-uuid/<long-uuid-here> (12s / 1min 30s)

I think it's not able to locate the disk hence failing to starting anything related to the disk encryption at all.

And after sometime it just goes on to the user login screen without asking me for the home partition encryption. (basically skipping it) and when I enter my username and pass correctly it just keeps looping on the user login screen.

Any pointers on what is going on and what should I be doing to fix this? I am waiting for another laptop so that I can make a bootable drive but I am really worried about the data. Am I going to get it back?

geekodour

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Registered: 2017-04-28

Posts: 2

Re: encrypted device not founded after reboot - disk not found by uuid

I am able to view my files after running from a live usb: (sda4 is my enchome, home directory that's encrypted)

cryptsetup open --type luks /dev/sda4 crypto_LUKS
mount /dev/mapper/crypto_LUKS /mnt

but I am not sure what broke my bootup. The UUID shown when I run `lsblk` is the same that's been search for during bootup (original post). So I am not sure why it is not getting found.