BACKGROUND: My laptop is encrypted using loop-aes. I have a <testing> distro and it has been a while since I last updated. I upgrade the kernel (from 2.6.26 to 2.6.32), udev, hal, fsck, etc... After some serious fighting I'm able to solve the dependencies problems and build the loop-aes module for a kernel not yet running. The laptop boots, reaches grub and then asks for loop-aes password, I type it and the system starts booting. BANG... fsck decides to start whining and mount my system as read-only. fsck fails big time and complains about not finding super-block (note that everything was fine before the upgrade). I'm also unable to unmount because of the loop-device.
PROBLEM: I try to use the rescue cd to try to fix the problem by clearing up the filesystem dirty flags (by running a non-bugged version of e2fs or util-linux-ng), but the rescue cd simply states that it doesn't recognize that partition. Nor does it bother to ask the user for any options. And when I try to go to a secondary shell, there is no losetup which I can work it. The same for the Gnome/KDE desktop session. All of this may be related with this bug, I don't know... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566072 RESULT: It's 5am and I'm reinstalling my system using: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-kde-CD-1.iso The installation fails during grub installation if only using the cd (that is, no network repository is being used); apt/grub complains that it can't find a candidate (or something like that) And debian-mirrors (main germany mirror) failed to find a match for my architecture. Also, when choosing 2.6.32 as kernel, there is no loop-aes module for it... It's nice when the error message only shows up at the end of the installaion :-| I rebooted and... it doesn't work Oh and grub 2 (since I was unable to install legacy) detects but then fails to add entries for other OSs. When I boot only linux is on the grub menu. back to the 20081122 weekly build cd and start it all over again -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
