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From: "Michael Kjörling" <michael@kjorling.se>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Anyone know why I can't access my volumes?
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 07:50:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <n79nhf9zcwbfvj4x3px7xtnr@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dSQNvGX80huu7ihdPeNylguMY-SgmnKleKpBEgwGJtOMDzLMPNMl4KN3CQw53EfGHpfsvxwTCjSusU4bcSwH7d88mMUjDJdqbyHF6ukyFyg=@pm.me>

On 20 Oct 2019 21:53 +0000, from philipp@pm.me (Philipp Rösch):
> I installed Arch Linux about a year ago with LUKS on LVM. After an
> update and reboot I can no longer access the volumes: "No key
> available with this passphrase."

That, to me, immediately makes the update suspect. Do you remember
what was updated? The kernel? Keyboard utilities or data? Any
LUKS-related packages? Was a new initramfs generated? Anything else
that might possibly be relevant for the early boot process?

Are you able to download bootable live/rescue media and boot from
that, then try to open the LUKS container from within that
environment? That should allow you to experiment more, since you will
have a fuller environment than the early boot environment. If it works
from within a live environment, then at least you know that it's
something about your installed system, not the data on disk as such.

I strongly recommend that you make at least a header backup, if you
haven't already, just in case something goes further wrong.

-- 
Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael@kjorling.se
  “The most dangerous thought that you can have as a creative person
              is to think you know what you’re doing.” (Bret Victor)

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-21  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-20 21:53 [dm-crypt] Anyone know why I can't access my volumes? Philipp Rösch
2019-10-21  7:50 ` Michael Kjörling [this message]
2019-10-21 14:33   ` Philipp Rösch
2019-10-21 14:50     ` Arno Wagner
2019-10-21 14:56       ` Philipp Rösch
2019-10-24  7:26         ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2019-10-24 12:34           ` Arno Wagner
2019-10-24 19:35           ` Philipp Rösch
2019-12-10 16:34             ` Philipp Rösch
2019-12-10 17:42               ` Chris Murphy
2019-12-10 20:00                 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-12-10 21:18                   ` Chris Murphy
2019-12-10 21:51               ` Arno Wagner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-10-21 18:16 Arno Wagner
2019-10-21 18:23 ` Philipp Rösch

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