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Re: Wheezy no longer accepts my passwords to open /home and /mnt partitions on boot

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Le 09/12/2016 à 04:26, David Christensen a écrit :
> On 12/07/16 22:06, Ken Heard wrote:
>> In my Wheezy box I have two encrypted hard drive partitions,
>> /dev/mapper/md07_crypt for /home and /dev/mapper/md05_crypt for /mnt.
(...)
>> This morning, when I tried to boot this box, I found that the
>> passwords for those two partitions were not accepted.
(...)
>> BOOT was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
>> BOOT: 245/120960 files (20.4% non-contiguous) 58505/241664 blocks
>> Fsck.ext4 No such file or directory while trying to open
>> /dev/mapper/md07_crypt.
>> Possibly non-existent device?
>> VAR: recovering journal

Looks like some other filesystems were not cleanly unmounted. Could it 
be related ?

>> [warn] A maintenance shell will now be started. CONTROL-D will
>> terminate the shell and resume system boot ... (warning)
>> Give root password form maintenance
>> (or type CONTROL-D to continue):
>>
>> After entering the root password the root bang appeared.
(...)
>> I hope that somebody or bodies can tell me what to do to make this
>> computer usable again -- short of having to do a completely new
>> installation.

It depends what you mean by "usable".
If you just want to complete the init process, then comment out the 
/home line in /etc/fstab.

The first things you want to do is to check that /dev/md* exist and are 
active, and check the keyboard layout by typing the passphrases in 
cleartext.

> If you don't care about the data on that drive, wipe it and do a fresh
> install.
>
> If you do care and don't have a backup

Then you are a fool. Encryption means "I prefer losing the data than 
having it disclosed". I guess you didn't make a backup of the master key 
or the LUKS header with cryptsetup ?

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Wheezy no longer accepts my passwords to open /home and /mnt partitions on boot Ken Heard <kenslists@teksavvy.com> - 2016-12-08 07:10 +0100
  Re: Wheezy no longer accepts my passwords to open /home and /mnt  partitions on boot David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-12-09 04:30 +0100
    Re: Wheezy no longer accepts my passwords to open /home and /mnt  partitions on boot Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-12-09 21:30 +0100

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