Re: cryptsetup - No key available with passphrase

On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 6:43 PM Arno Wagner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 08:55:50 CET, Milan Broz wrote:
> > But memory failure is just a recipe for disaster later...)
>
> I agree. I usually run memtest86+ (there is a new version out)
> for 2 days, just to be sure. Things have gotten better with
> DDR5 (on-chip ECC), but you can still get failures in buses
> or uncorrectable errors with low-quality RAM. Sometimes the
> RAM is even completely fine, but the mainboard manufacturer
> has screwed up the parameters that the BIOS uses.

This is what looks like happened here.
BIOS update seems to have screwed up the parameters,
Once I reset those everything worked again.

Maybe what cryptsetup could do is an addition to the FAQ that
intermittent/spurious/weird mistakes warrant a memory check.

Cheers,
Lars


>
> Regards,
> Arno
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