On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:07:40PM +0100, kjo@a4nancy.net.eu.org wrote: > Hi ! > > Feb 19th, I upgraded my debian testing as I do about twice a week. My > computer was then turned off (but I thing the upgrade was finished) and > I'm not able to boot anymore : I get these error messages : > > Setting up cryptographic volume hda2_crypt (based on /dev/hda2) > Enter LUKS passphrase: > key slot 2 unlocked > Command successful. > 3 logical volume(s) in volume group "[vg]" now active well, that's good, you're unlocking and it looks like lvm is starting up right. > cryptsetup: unknown fstype, bad password or options? > Command failed: Device busy > Command failed: Device already exists > cryptsetup: cryptsetup failed, bad password or options? > Command failed: Device already exists > cryptsetup: cryptsetup failed, bad password or options? > cryptsetup: pmaximum number of tries exceeded not sure what these things mean. > Done. > Begin: Waiting for root file system... ... > > after that it waits a long time and I enter the BusyBox of initramfs. > > Let's me describe my setup : I have one hard disk, on which there are 2 > partitions : > > hda1 --ext3--> /boot/ > hda2 --crypto--> hda2_crypt --lvm--> [vg] > > on [vg] I have : > > [vg]-swap --> swap > [vg]-root --xfs--> / > [vg]-home --xfs--> /home/ > > Then some more info on my problem : > > (initramfs) ls /dev/mapper > control > hda2_crypt > [vg]-home > [vg]-root > [vg]-swap > > "mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /tmp/" works, but mounting [vg]-root doesn't > > (initramfs) mount -t xfs /dev/mapper/[vg]-root /tmp/ > mount: Mounting /dev/mapper/[vg]-root on /tmp/ failed: Invalid > argument did it ever really work with '[' and ']' in the filename? if so, I'm shocked. > > It seems to me that I have the good modules loaded (dm_crypt, aes, xfs...). > > My kernel is 2.6.22-3-686 > > I can't access my system anymore, then I'va no idea how to solve the > problem... any idea ? Do you still have old kernel's and initrd's lying around that might work? That's where I"d start, get booted into an older system... A
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