[arch-general] can't unlock a luks encrypted partition. (urgent).

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 20:10 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> solsTiCe d'Hiver schrieb:
> > it has been sometime ago
> > 
> > # grep cryptsetup /var/log/pacman.log 
> > [2008-07-16 11:03] upgraded cryptsetup (1.0.6-1 -> 1.0.6-1)
> > [2008-10-08 14:29] upgraded cryptsetup (1.0.6-1 -> 1.0.6-2)
> > [2009-06-19 21:52] upgraded cryptsetup (1.0.6-2 -> 1.0.6-3)
> > [2009-08-10 14:52] upgraded cryptsetup (1.0.6-3 -> 1.0.7-1)
> 
> So that's not it. 1.0.7 should be working better anyway. Sadly, a viable 
> debug option has only been introduced in 1.1.0rc1 afaik, 1.0.7 doesn't 
> have anything that will help here. We need to find out where exactly it 
> fails. Maybe I could write an email to Milan Broz about this, because I 
> am out of ideas.
> 

I compiled 1.1.0rc2
then copied cryptsetup libcryptsetup.so libcryptsetup.so.1
libcryptsetup.so.1.0.0
to /tmp/testfolder
then cd /tmp/testfolder
then 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./ ./cryptsetup --debug luksOpen /dev/sdb1 home
and it unlocks it correctly everytime!