----- sml@lordsargon.com 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. Under 10.2 I had a separate data partition that I encrypted via the loop scheme. When I installed 10.3 yesterday, I edited the proposed partitioning plan and for that encrypted partition, I selected "Do Not Format" and checked the "Encrypt..." tickbox. To my pleasant surprise, the installer detected that this was an encrypted partition; correctly figured out the encryption algorithm (twofish256); asked me for the passphrase, and; correctly set up everything. Now, like under 10.2, when the laptop is booting the boot process drops to a commandline to ask me for the encryption passphrase. Life is good at this end. Perhaps this process (using YaST exclusively during the install and then later on the other partition) would solve both of your problems? Hope that helps, Mark -- _________________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC "Uptime. All the time." 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.reliablenetworks.com This email was sent from Reliable Networks of Maine LLC. It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If you suspect that you were not intended to receive it, please delete it and notify us as soon as possible. Thank you. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Monday 08 October 2007 10:47, sml@lordsargon.com 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? -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org