Bug#465812:
Do you people think that this information should confirm that it is a
cryptsetup bug ?
PS: Maybe we should have an "urgency=verylow" field so that such base
packages could get more time in sid for testing.
Ritesh
On 3/3/08, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@researchut.com> wrote:
> This bug is hitting me everywhere. None of the encrypted drives (other
> external hard drives) which had very trivial passwords, work anymore.
>
> Here's the output of luksDump
>
> ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo cryptsetup luksDump /dev/sdb2
> LUKS header information for /dev/sdb2
>
> Version: 1
> Cipher name: aes
> Cipher mode: cbc-essiv:sha256
> Hash spec: sha1
> Payload offset: 1032
> MK bits: 128
> MK digest: 1e 18 63 f4 5c a0 42 91 95 e6 4f 0c 7f bf bb a5 09 25 83 d5
> MK salt: 0f 86 8d 33 a3 68 71 39 78 80 e0 db b5 46 f4 8f
> bd 85 67 a8 bc 60 36 02 d2 52 f5 73 7e ab 42 0c
> MK iterations: 10
> UUID: b361837d-269c-466f-9cdd-a9ff16e313a9
>
> Key Slot 0: ENABLED
> Iterations: 136622
> Salt: 78 70 62 73 fa c3 76 e6 d8 63 fa 8e 96 c5 c1 54
> ef b9 38 3f d2 e5 73 46 c5 80 e0 03 4b f6 f4 98
> Key material offset: 8
> AF stripes: 4000
> Key Slot 1: DISABLED
> Key Slot 2: DISABLED
> Key Slot 3: DISABLED
> Key Slot 4: DISABLED
> Key Slot 5: DISABLED
> Key Slot 6: DISABLED
> Key Slot 7: DISABLED
>
>
> And this seems to be inherited from ubuntu. Ubuntu gutsy also has the
> same problems.
>
> Is there a workaround ?
>
> Unfortunately, the USB Stick setup I did also installed 2.6.22-3. So
> it was of no help. And does it also affect d-i ?
> d-i cd, that I have, has 2.6.22-3 and it also doesn't work in rescue mode.
>
>
> This error:
> ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb2 sdb2_crypt
> Enter LUKS passphrase:
> Enter LUKS passphrase:
> Enter LUKS passphrase:
> Command failed: No key available with this passphrase.
> makes the user feel that she has lost the password. But that really
> isn't the case.
>
>
> Ritesh
>
>
>
> On 3/2/08, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@researchut.com> wrote:
> > I think I too have been hit by this bug.
> >
> > Unluckily, for me none of the kernel images that I have (2.6.24,
> > 2.6.23, 2.6.22-3-686) work. Also I have a backup initrd of 2.6.24 and
> > .23, but they too don't work.
> > So I'm now stuck up with an unbootable laptop.
> >
> > Currently I'm setting up a USB Stick to boot and see what really is
> > the problem. But I believe it is not a password problem because, a
> > user who has been running the encrypted root device for 6+ months,
> > cannot forget the password one fine day.
> >
> > Ritesh
> > --
> > Ritesh Raj Sarraf
> > RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
> > "Necessity is the mother of invention."
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
>
> --
> Ritesh Raj Sarraf
> RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
> "Necessity is the mother of invention."
>
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
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