Public bug reported:
Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) x64
After installing a recent set of updates (including any from -proposed),
among others a kernel update (i don't recall the other ones), my main
LUKS partition (containing /) has been corrupted. After rebooting, I am
no longer able to boot the system because of cryptsetup idling with
"Waiting for encrypted source device..." forever.
Trying to "cryptsetup luksOpen" from a live-CD fails as well:
> ~ $ sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda7 crypto
> Enter LUKS passphrase:
> Command failed: /dev/sda7 is not a LUKS partition
Unless this is the unlikely event of some kind of hard drive failure at
the exact same moment (seems unlikely as I can boot into other OSes from
the same HDD just fine), this seems to be quite a serious bug.
I'm attaching the output of "hexdump -C -n 1024 /dev/sda7" which still
seems to contain something that looks like a LUKS header. I've no idea
where the grub stuff comes from and if it's supposed to be there or not.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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LUKS partition corrupted
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495270
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