On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 07:16:20PM +1000, Joel Sing wrote: > On 20-05-20 11:53:18, Stephan Mending wrote: > > Hi *, > > > > since the snapshot of yesterday (could as well be the one of the day before) > > I am unable to decrypt my disks preboot. > > By "preboot" do you mean from the boot loader? By preboot I meant the state the bootloader is in while it is waiting for me to enter the passphrase. > > > When entering my passphrase after being prompted to do so it tells me that > > pbkdf_decrypt failed. This issue persists. I've tried several different > > harddrives. I tried the current snapshot I've tried the 6.7 release version. > > Even on fresh installs, same piece of cake. > > As far as I can see, 'pbkdf_decrypt' does not exist in the source tree. > The closest would probably have been the old boot loader which had > 'pbkdf2 failed' - from 2016 onwards it is 'pkcs5_pbkdf2 failed' or > 'bcrypt_pbkdf failed'. I screwed up there I meant to say: "bcrypt_pbkdf". > > > I don't have time right now to debug this problem. I'll get to it?? this > > evening after work is over. > > > > I posted this question just in case anybody else already knows the answer. > > My best guess is that you're trying to unlock newer softraid crypto volumes > that are using bcrypt_pbkdf, with a very old boot loader that does not > support this and thinks that it is pkcs5_pbkdf. This machine was -current since months before. I think I mislead you with the wrong information I gave above. Am sorry for that! > > > Best regards, > > > > Stephan > >
Hi, the day after the problem was somehow resolved. I didn't try the release again yet. Just because I am at the moment really short of time. Though it still shouldn't work out using the release. Best regards, Stephan
