[Bug 305745] Re: after upgrading to intrepid 8.10, impossible to unlock encrypted disk with new kernels in 8.10

[Guillem Marpons]

I've found the problem. Thanks for your help.

2008/12/8 Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de>:
>
> can you perhaps retry with an passphrase without non-ASCII characters?
> perhaps something changed here...

I've added a new passphrase with "cryptsetup luksAddKey", and I've
discovered that in the old system (kernel 2.6.24/Ubuntu 8.04),
non-ASCII characters are ignored when the system asks for a
passphrase, so my old passphrase didn't contain them! This behaviour
has now changed (kernel 2.6.27/Ubuntu 8.10).

I don't know how to avoid that other users suffer the same problem.
Maybe the behaviour is going to be consistent from now on, but if
somebody is going to install Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, she could make my very
same mistake. Maybe the use of non-ASCII chars should be explicitly
and strongly discouraged when asking for a new passphrase, during
installation.

Cheers,

Guillem Marpons

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after upgrading to intrepid 8.10, impossible to unlock encrypted disk with new kernels in 8.10
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