I am having a similar problem. I've installed Edgy and made an encrypted home. I've wrote a tutorial about how it is done so you can see exactly what I've did on: http://pupeno.com/2006/12/17/encrypted-home-in-ubuntu-or-kubuntu-or-debian/ I've upgraded to Feisty by replacing "edgy" with "feisty" on sources.list and "aptitude dist-upgrade". After rebooting, my encrypted home wasn't mounted automatically and I can't mount it by hand. I'll try to dump as many relevant information here and wait some hours in case anybody needs more information until I'll rebuild the encrypted FS and restore from backups. No mapping enabled: pupeno@black:~$ ls /dev/mapper/ control pupeno@black:~$ and this is what I have mounted: pupeno@black:~$ mount /dev/sda1 on / type reiserfs (rw,notail) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755) varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777) procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.20-14-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) pupeno@black:~$ My first suprise is that my IDE (P)ATA HD is seen as /dev/sda and not /dev/hda. I see that this is because migration to libata, sounds nice. Maybe that's the problem with cryptloop? Let's see some information about the crypted FS: pupeno@black:~$ sudo cryptsetup luksDump /dev/sda3 LUKS header information for /dev/sda3 Version: 1 Cipher name: aes Cipher mode: cbc-essiv:sha256 Hash spec: sha1 Payload offset: 1032 MK bits: 128 MK digest: 76 99 15 04 37 2d bc e1 25 9b 33 0c 08 f4 6a c7 ec 11 7c 59 MK salt: 7c cf f7 0f aa 22 50 eb 05 78 24 79 bc 7b 2b 46 9e 25 29 fc f1 f7 70 84 1a 4d f8 21 ea dd 44 38 MK iterations: 10 UUID: f9d7e9c3-9176-4d3b-9d20-4abb25e4ffaf Key Slot 0: ENABLED Iterations: 69658 Salt: c7 ed 53 74 a9 cd d8 da a7 1d 04 d4 06 28 9f 3e fb ae 4e 93 da 09 d7 7e fc 14 1e aa 83 ef 75 18 Key material offset: 8 AF stripes: 4000 Key Slot 1: ENABLED Iterations: 69773 Salt: d2 1e 82 0a 41 77 d4 23 8b 88 5c ed ea 14 33 b4 fe 2b 20 c5 c3 33 08 29 32 fd 28 46 a9 8a 39 bd Key material offset: 136 AF stripes: 4000 Key Slot 2: ENABLED Iterations: 62620 Salt: c8 5b ad 11 49 0d 03 02 2d ed 4c b3 bd 2e 98 3c bf de a8 c0 fe af 68 f9 b9 1f e0 7c 0a 17 2a 4e Key material offset: 264 AF stripes: 4000 Key Slot 3: DISABLED Key Slot 4: DISABLED Key Slot 5: DISABLED Key Slot 6: DISABLED Key Slot 7: DISABLED So far it looks ok. Let's try opening it: pupeno@black:~$ sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda3 home Enter LUKS passphrase: key slot 2 unlocked. Command successful. pupeno@black:~$ So far it seems it's working. pupeno@black:~$ ls /dev/mapper/ control home pupeno@black:~$ The first time I tried this, aside of control and home, there was also a temporary-cryptsetup-5864 which is now not preset. Ok, let's try to mount it: pupeno@black:~$ sudo mount /dev/mapper/home /media/ mount: Operation not supported pupeno@black:~$ First sight of a problem. Being verbose doesn't help: pupeno@black:~$ sudo mount -v /dev/mapper/home /media/ mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/mapper/home I will try type reiserfs mount: Operation not supported pupeno@black:~$ Indeed the FS is reiserfs. With dmesg I can see this (will include the whole dmesg latter): [ 927.396000] sda: rw=0, want=78140159, limit=72174581 [ 927.396000] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 927.396000] sda: rw=0, want=78140160, limit=72174581 [ 927.444000] ReiserFS: dm-0: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal [ 927.444000] ReiserFS: dm-0: using ordered data mode [ 927.464000] ReiserFS: dm-0: journal params: device dm-0, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 [ 927.464000] ReiserFS: dm-0: checking transaction log (dm-0) [ 927.480000] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 927.480000] sda: rw=0, want=75774517, limit=72174581 [ 927.480000] ReiserFS: dm-0: warning: vs-13070: reiserfs_read_locked_inode: i/o failure occurred trying to find stat data of [1 2 0x0 SD] [ 927.480000] ReiserFS: dm-0: Using r5 hash to sort names [ 927.480000] ReiserFS: dm-0: warning: xattrs/ACLs enabled and couldn't find/create .reiserfs_priv. Failing mount. That doesn't look nice. Let's try to fsck it: pupeno@black:~$ sudo fsck.reiserfs /dev/mapper/home reiserfsck 3.6.19 (2003 www.namesys.com) ************************************************************* ** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and it fails ** ** please email bug reports to