Fedora 10 Passphrase Problem With cryptsetup-luks

[Robert L Cochran]

This problem is continuing. Bug 470740.


Bob


Robert L Cochran wrote:
> Yesterday, an update came through for cryptsetup-luks-1.0.6-6.fc10.i386.
> I'm using the disk encryption; I installed it at the time I installed
> Fedora 10 snapshot 3. This morning I turned on the system and when I
> mistyped my passphrase the first time, the next two attempts to enter
> the correct passphrase (and I knew I was typing it in correctly) would
> get this response:
>
> command failed: no key available with this passphrase.
>
> And after the third failed attempt the system "froze" (I know that needs
> a better description.)
>
> I turned the system off using the machine's power button and turned it
> on again.
>
> The next two attempts to enter the passphrase again failed, with the
> same response as above. By then I was beginning to despair a bit. The
> third time I entered the passphrase, it worked! And my Fedora 10 system
> started booting.
>
> I did a `yum update` to see if there was another cryptsetup-luks updates
> out there, but no. Then I shut down the machine and rebooted, and my
> first attempt to enter the passphrase succeeded.
>
> Is this the normal way cryptsetup-luks works? Or is this a bug?
>
> I have a fully-up-to-date Fedora 10 Snap 3 installation. I guess that
> makes it the same as a fully updated Fedora 10 Preview.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob Cochran
>
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