Ubuntu
cryptsetup package

  1. Bug #433051
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 433051

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parke (parke-bostrom) wrote :

I have encountered this same bug after installing Ubuntu 9.10 beta desktop on my Asus EEE (i386).

I used the alternate installer, and encrypted the root partition. Thus far, the root partition has always mounted successfully at boot. However, when I try to "cryptsetup luksOpen" my SD card, it does not accept the password.

Perhaps this is just a problem with LUKS encrypted disks that were created with previous versions of Ubuntu? (Of course, that is still a serious issue as LUKS should be forward compatible.)

Eventually, "cryptsetup luksOpen" (run as root from the command line) will succeed. It seems that if I log in to Gnome (instead of on the console), and then insert the SD card, Gnome detects the LUKS SD card, and ask me for a password. Gnome then fails to mount it, but(!) the next time I try to mount the SD card in the console as root, I succeed. However, I have only used this workaround twice, so maybe something else is going on.

If I discover any more information, I will post it here.