[SOLVED] cryptsetup luksFormat would not ask for passphrase!?

jwhendy · 2011-03-23 03:34:25

I was just reinstalling and following the same procedure I did the last time. cfdisk, make /boot then leave the rest for /, then create a luks volume:

# cryptsetup -c aes-xts-plain -y -s 512 luksFormat /dev/sda2

I got the big warning message and had to type "yes" but then it just went back to the prompt. No request for any password at all! I tried this several times with the same result. Tried luksOpen just for the heck of it and got the error that it wasn't a valid luks device or something to that effect.

Going through the installer is working, but this really puzzled me. Why in the world wouldn't cryptsetup have asked for a passphrase?

I am pretty sure the last time it forced me to manually do 'modprobe dm_mod' but this time it didn't. I think the netinstall image is the same as it was a month ago, so I don't think that was it.

Thoughts?

Last edited by jwhendy (2011-03-24 16:27:49)

IncredibleLaser · 2011-03-24 10:38:50

Did you load the modules for AES?

vik_k · 2011-03-24 11:05:20

uhh.. maybe silly ques.. but u typed YES not yes?? right??

jwhendy · 2011-03-24 14:55:15

Well, I've already installed so I can't retry this right now, but if it's case sensitive this might be my biggest display of silliness yet!

vik_k · 2011-03-24 16:07:09

yep.. it is case sensitive..

jwhendy · 2011-03-24 16:28:03

Marked solved -- many thanks!

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[SOLVED] cryptsetup luksFormat would not ask for passphrase!?

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