crypto_LUKS mounts fail (rawhide)

[Tom London]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Sean Madden<spmadden at gmail.com> wrote:
> I do not believe this is an issue with Rawhide.  Try to unlock the partition
> by issuing a
>
> cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdc1 usbStick
>
> This command should create a block device '/dev/mapper/usbStick' which you
> should be able to mount normally
>
> mount /dev/mapper/usbStick /mnt
>
> -Sean
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Tom London <selinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I tried to "backup" my system to a crypt_LUKS partition on a USB drive.
>>
>> This has been the way I've been backing up for quite some time.
>>
>> This now fails with Rawhide:
>>
>> [root at tlondon packages]# mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt
>> mount: unknown filesystem type 'crypto_LUKS'
>> [root at tlondon packages]#
>>
>> I've tried booting older kernels, reverting device-mapper, lvm2 and
>> util-linux-ng packages to no avail.
>>
>> [root at tlondon packages]# fdisk /dev/sdc
>>
>> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 38913.
>> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
>> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
>> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
>> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
>>   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
>>
>> Command (m for help): print
>>
>> Disk /dev/sdc: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>> Disk identifier: 0x0005772c
>>
>>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sdc1               1       38913   312568641   83  Linux
>>
>> Command (m for help): quit
>>
>> [root at tlondon packages]#
>>
>>
>> Anyone successfully mounting LUKS encrypted partitions with rawhide?
>>
>> This a known issue?
>>
>> I've BZ'ed this here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506960
>>
>> Help appreciated.
>>

Thanks.  Will have to wait until I get home....

Just curious, if not Rawhide, what? Carry over from F11?

tom
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Tom London