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cryptsetup hanging? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Anyone ever have cryptsetup just start hanging after entering password on boot? This seems like it's going to be a fun issue to try to resolve...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Boot with previous kernel ? If fail, boot from Linux live, connect, mount, make backups, and try to fix.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It could also be a disk problem. I second the backup suggestion

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This is my main concern.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oddly, after a few tries I managed to get past. I religiously back things up, and just last night pushed all my current dots.

I'm gonna run some drive diagnostics. If everything looks good, I'll just repartition and take this as a sign to only use encryption on secondary drives where I backup sensitive info.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I really need to get into pushing dot files. Every time I think „its not going to be that much“. Then I install a new system and like 20 apps, then I fiddle here and there. After a couple weeks I def rack up one or more hours of config.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

My protip is to use symlinks, and then just keep all your dots in a project folder. Makes it super easy to keep iterating on them in realtime, and pushing changes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thats neat! Thanks for the suggestion. I‘ll try that. Currently am experimenting on libraries with my coding stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

How could you boot a different kernel if you can't unlock the drive?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it quite common to have /boot on an unencrypted partition?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Oh yeah duh