Re: [dm-crypt] cryptsetup bug

[Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>]

Hi,

as far as I can tell, the header and keyslot look healthy.
Of course some overwritten bytes in the Key-slot would
not show, but they should not happen on the operations 
you describe.

Make very sure you are inputing the correct passphrase.
Maybe the keyborad-layout subtly changed? Did this same
passphrase work before for you, i.e. do you have a clear
good-before bad-after situation?

You can send me the complete header (if you want, but not
the data part please and not the passphrase) and I can have 
a look for obvious corruption. You find the information on
how to do a header backup in the FAQ: 

   http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

There may also be something wring with the LVM, e.g.
overlapping partitions or the like. This could have done 
arbitrary damage, but should be visible in the key-slot data.

Arno

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:09:21AM +0530, divyashree kumar wrote:
> Sir ,
> 
> 
>         I am Priyadarshee  Divyashree Kumar from Odisha , India . I am in a
> serious trouble . My brother is a Judicial Magistrate in the court and he is
> provided with a HCL laptop from the court with preinstalled customized RHEL5
> client . He just asked me to install some player so that he can listen some
> musics or watch some videos . I just installed VLC,MPLAYER,XINE and MIRO ,
> but while installing I used external repositories from rpmforge, pbone and
> epel . All gone successfull .
> 
> 
>      The laptop has 160 GB harddrive and among which 128 GB are LVM and is
> LUKS encrypted which is his  home directory containing various legal
> documents from courts and the cases and a lot . After some hours of ,when I
> turn on the laptop , it gives an error as
> 
>      starting disc encryption , command failed : Error opening device ;no
> > such file or directory ;
> >
> and it asks for entering the passphrase again and again 3 times even with
> providing with correct passwords .
> 
> I just googled and try with a live CD , but no result , the result returned
> a follows :
> 
> #cryptsetup -v luksDump /dev/mapper/homevg-homevol
> 
> LUKS header information for /dev/mapper/homevg-homevol
> >
> > Version: 1
> > Cipher name: aes
> > Cipher mode: cbc-essiv:sha256
> > Hash spec: sha1
> > Payload offset: 1032
> > MK bits: 128
> > MK digest: 2a 77 66 d8 24 23 36 b1 c3 91 6d 0d 9d 1e ff 19 3f fe 16 67
> > MK salt: de 14 b0 ac 51 18 3c c0 97 77 40 31 38 07 fe f4
> > 28 43 06 a9 a2 98 22 6c 67 fc af 71 fd 76 4d f9
> > MK iterations: 10
> > UUID: c0be1231-cf29-48ac-8cba-1bf98b180051
> >
> > Key Slot 0: ENABLED
> > Iterations: 181173
> > Salt: f7 4a 8b 83 5f d4 ed e2 7f 42 42 38 eb bc 46 d2
> > fd b1 7c c5 83 f0 3e 34 83 0f ff 0f 32 95 54 17
> > 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 with looksOpen ,
> 
> # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mapper/homevg-homevol home
> > Enter LUKS passphrase for /dev/mapper/homevg-homevol:
> > Enter LUKS passphrase for /dev/mapper/homevg-homevol:
> > Enter LUKS passphrase for /dev/mapper/homevg-homevol:
> > Command failed: No key available with this passphrase.
> >
> 
> 
> I am trying since last 10-12 hrs wihout a single hope , but as it contains
> last 5 months of courtwork , I am completely out of mind what to do ,how to
> do , how to recover the home ?
> 
> I dont know if this is a bug or anything , but I have to return his laptop
> as it was .
> 
> 
> Kindly ,any help will be thankful .
> 
> Sincerely..
> Priyadarshee Divyashree Kumar

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