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antarctic

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Registered: 2023-06-08

Posts: 11

Luks Decryption fails

hi, I've been using Arch Linux for years and for the last 2 days I've had the problem that I can't decrypt my hard drive.
It shows me the error that the passphrase is wrong even though it is 100% correct. I also tested the passphrase in a live USB.

gdisk showed me that the last partition overlaps by 33 blocks.
Before it worked the last time, I accidentally copied all of my root dir into a folder and then deleted the folder straight away. I'm guessing that's why.

can this be fixed somehow? external hard drive and then resize it somehow?

Edit: luks headers are not corrupted! I checked them with cryptsetup luksDump
And if i try to decrypt my harddrive in the terminal i get:
Warning: keyslot operation could fail as it required more than available memory

Last edited by antarctic (2024-10-17 21:35:05)

ua4000

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Registered: 2015-10-14

Posts: 486

Re: Luks Decryption fails

is it luks 2 ?
if yes, it's depending on healthy RAM,
check it, e,g,: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Stress … MemTest86+

Or test your luks from another machine.