encrypted f10 install - changed after using livecd - a question?

[Mike]

Charlie Brej <fedora-test-list <at> brej.org> writes:


> So what I think is happening is that you type in the correct password

With a lot of help from an encryption expert I did manage to solve this.

It turned out that the F10 liveCD decided to quietly take over the swap
partition and use it for itself - so the carefully prepared encrypted swap
was totally trashed.

This meant that booting back to the encrypted system (after entering the
passphrase several times because it could not find the luks partition)
the system was running without any swap!

This would be something I would not be surprised at happening if I was using
a rawhide liveCD, but it is depressing that this happened with a published
Fedora release LiveCD!

The use of the liveCD should come with a serious health warning on this
matter!

Anyway what was necessary was to recreate the encrypted luks mapped 
partition and make sure that /etc/crypttab and /etc/fstab matched.
During the mess up that the livecd did to the swap partition a new 
UUID was created and that had to be used in the re-created encrypted swap.

The fix took three hours of our time. I am decidedly unpleased!

Anyway it is fixed now, and I had better shut up before I blow more fuses!