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From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] openLuks failing - semaphore weird bug involved ?
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 01:07:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110915230704.GB10180@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E722492.8020501@gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:15:14PM -0400, Ricflomag wrote:
> 
> >>I have run a "badblocks -nvs
> >>/dev/sdb3<https://one.ubuntu.com/dev/sdb3>",
> >>it did not find any error... And after this, SMART still reports 4 pending
> >>sectors.
> >Meaning the pending sectors are someplae else.
> >
> >>Any clue about how investigating further ?
> >badblocks on /dev/sdb.
> >
> >Arno
> That would tell me where the pending sectors are, outside of the
> luks partition. But it would not help to know why the luks partition
> fails to open, would it ?

It should not. However, the disk is suspect. Solve that first. 
Defective storage (or hardware in general) can cause all sorts 
of strange effects.

Arno
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      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-15 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-07 18:30 [dm-crypt] openLuks failing - semaphore weird bug involved ? Ric Flomag
2011-09-07 22:31 ` Arno Wagner
2011-09-08 15:46 ` Ric Flomag
2011-09-08 18:11   ` Arno Wagner
2011-09-08 21:53     ` Claudio Moretti
2011-09-08 22:21       ` Karl O. Pinc
2011-09-09 16:19         ` Arno Wagner
     [not found]   ` <1315506605.6590.0@mofo>
2011-09-15 15:54     ` Ric Flomag
2011-09-15 16:06       ` Arno Wagner
2011-09-15 16:15         ` Ricflomag
2011-09-15 23:07           ` Arno Wagner [this message]

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