GNU bug report logs - #19190
Cannot boot with encrypted root

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Message #14 received at 19190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Duncan Keall <duncan <at> duncankeall.com>
Cc: Nikita Karetnikov <nikita <at> karetnikov.org>, 19190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19190: Cannot boot with encrypted root
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 17:04:51 +0100

Hi,  :-)

Duncan Keall <duncan <at> duncankeall.com> skribis:

>> Perhaps you could try running ‘cryptsetup’ by hand from the REPL.
>
> I needed to replace "/bin/cryptsetup" with "/sbin/cryptsetup". After
> that, cryptsetup accepted a password and printed these errors:
>
>   device-mapper: table 253:0: crypt: Error allocating crypto tfm
>   device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
>   device-mapper: reload ioctl on  failed: No such file or directory
>   Failed to open temporary keystore device.
>   device-mapper: remove ioctl on temporary-cryptsetup-149 failed: No
>   such device or address

I suspect this is due to missing modules.

Does your initrd configuration have the modules Nikita’s configuration
shows?

Thanks for testing so quickly!

Ludo’.

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