On Monday 08 October 2007 10:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hopefully the wisdom of list users will fix my problems....
>
>
> Problem one:
>
> I installed 10.3 on my Acer Ferrari Saturday, after backing up /home
> to some external hard drives. Those hard drives are encrypted using
> YaST's partitioner (under 10.2, using loop-crypt) and via command
> line (losetup -e twofish256). When I try and mount them under 10.3
> using the YaST partitioner, they are never mounted. I have tried
> mounting them manually from the command line, but they never mount.
> The twofish256 option doesn't work (ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid
> argument), so I tried twofish, but the drives still never mount.
>
> As it stands now, the entire backup of my e-mail and documents are
> sitting on some drives which are unreadable unless I revert to 10.2
> on one of the other machines.
>
> Problem two:
>
> In the process of troubleshooting problem one, I decided to wipe out
> of the of the drives and encrypt it via the new method (LuKS). I set
> the options to not mount at startup and to be mountable by user, and
> mount by device name. I can't mount that drive either. It appears
> that every time I shut the laptop down the mapper device disappears,
> forcing me to re-create it each time. After doing this, the drive
> will mount, but I am never asked for the password.
>
>
> Has anyone run into these problems? How did you resolve them?
>
> Thanks in advance.

Is the kernel module cryptoloop loaded?

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