Re: Is my LUKS header corrupted?

Well, goot to know you got your data bak.

Regards,
Arno

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 13:04:57 CEST, Greg Laun wrote:
>    Thanks everyone for replying.
>    It turns out the behavior was different than what I thought. On boot,
>    Kubuntu drops into emergency mode after three password tries. After
>    that if you exit emergency mode without rebooting, Kubuntu prompts for
>    the passphrase again and drops into the emergency shell again after a
>    single try. I was trying different versions of the passphrase and must
>    have been oscillating between three of them in a way that made it
>    appear that Kubuntu could detect the correct phrase. Then once I got
>    into the emergency shell I must have been reconfirming the passphrase I
>    thought worked.
>    I should have mentioned in my first post that I did try booting into an
>    Arch boot disk and was unable to open the disk with the same
>    passphrase.
>    The good news is that I was just using the wrong passphrase. Over the
>    weekend I had been wrestling with a second LUKS disk that I know to be
>    corrupted and got the two passphrases confused.
>    Sorry! And thanks again for all the replies.
> 
>    On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:39 PM Heinz Diehl <[1][email protected]>
>    wrote:
> 
>      On 24.04.2019, Greg Laun wrote:
>      > I have a LUKS-encrypted hard drive partition that is showing the
>      following
>      > behavior on Kubuntu 19.04:
>      [.....]
>      I would suggest trying to open the device after booting from an
>      external system, e.g. a Fedora or Arch linux boot disk. Just to rule
>      out it isn't Kubuntu doing something weird.
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