On Sunday 30 December 2007, Kai Ponte wrote:
Okay, this blows. (Sorry for the California term, but it is all I can think of.)
After several hours of installing 10.3 on my laptop followed by terrible frustration and then several hours of installing 10.2 on my laptop, I've decided I need to downgrade to Vista.
Unfortunately, the laptop must be encrypted. There is no other option, since it is a business laptop.
From what I can tell - I had a perfectly working laptop on Thursday. Yesterday I took it upon myself to upgrade to 10.3 and encrypt the home partition. Doing so caused numerous issues, mostly with locking up the screen and/or system randomly.
I decided today to do a fresh install of 10.2 - which was working fine - on the system with an encrypted home partition.
Same issues. System will lock up unexpectedly after either a few minutes or after an hour.
I can only guess that the encryption is causing the issue.
I always have /home and /tmp and even swap encrypted on all notebooks and desktops, at least since 10.0, and now all with 10.3. I'm using LUKS though, and an adaption of SuSE's old boot.crypt script. Works without any encryption related problem whatsoever. I think 10.3 is now also using DM-Crypt / cryptsetup, but I haven't tried it, it was far too easy to continue to use the same setup. If it is so, then SuSE's setup script is surely better than mine, however if under the hood is LUKS / cryptsetup / dm-crypt then the problems you see are IMHO not caused by the encryption. I even have several USB disks with LUKS encrypted partitions, and all is just working, reliably working, on each of the currently 3 systems I plug them in regularly. You might have a different issue in that laptop you are using. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org