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  1. Bug #1755800
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 1755800

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Martin D. Weinberg (martin-weinberg-5) wrote : Re: Greeter/lockscreen fails to authenicate in an endless loop

I've been studying the swap mess. It seems that the installer made a swapfile called /swapfile and entered the line in /etc/crypttab as:

cryptswap1 /target/swapfile /dev/urandom swap,offset=1024,cipher=aes-xts-plain64

which is the wrong, non-existent filename. So that seems to be an issue with the installer scripts.

Also, I do not believe that the installer even asked me about a swap partition. I recall being surprised at the time.

Anyway, after fixing that and rerunning ecryptfs-setup-swap, I was able to use cryptdisks_start to get the encrypted swap going and reboot with encrypted swap successfully. I wonder if this has been the root of my problem all along?