From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tansi.org (ns.km10532-04.keymachine.de [87.118.102.195]) by mail.saout.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:56:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from gatewagner.dyndns.org (84-74-164-239.dclient.hispeed.ch [84.74.164.239]) by tansi.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 868572128001 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:56:56 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:58:03 +0100 From: Arno Wagner Message-ID: <20100205175802.GA30602@tansi.org> References: <20100204134943.GA15211@tansi.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] cryptsetup won't accept password after normal reboot List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 10:04:54AM +0000, wucherpfennig wrote: > Arno Wagner writes: > > So you unlocked it sucessfully a number of times and suddenly > > this does not work anymore? Any changes, like a different > > keyboard? > Yes without any problems and no, still same piece of ... well its old ;D > > Letters, except 'y' and 'z'. Numbers should be the same. > > Specials you will have to try some alternatives. > > > > Sounds doable. > > > > Arno > I avoided y z. So there shouldn't be a problem... > > (Damn I just hope I didn't mess up the whole list. Its kinda mess > when i try to > answer through the web interface...) You answer is a bit distributed over several messages, but no problem. What is not really interesting is hwat caused the problem. Ok, here are some more ideas: Maybe a key on the keyboard is broken and does not work or does not work reliably anymore. Maybe actually some othe error happens after a successful decrypt an it only looks like it does not start. Is this plain dm-crypt? (It it is old...) Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier