[Bug 479129] Re: [Karmic] cryptsetup not accepting filesystem type ext4

[Claudio Moretti]

Maybe, but it sounds strange to me: I set up disks during installation,
should'nt Ubuntu installer take care of this?

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 16:06, mejo <jonas at freesources.org> wrote:

> seems like you're using plain dm-crypt encryption, and cryptdisks checks
> for a valid
> filesystem but doesn't find one.
>
> please paste your /etc/crypttab and /etc/fstab for more information.
>
> ** Changed in: cryptsetup (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> [Karmic] cryptsetup not accepting filesystem type ext4
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> Status in “cryptsetup” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: cryptsetup
>
> I was doing a fresh Karmic install from alternate CD; in the partition
> manager, I created a small partition for "/boot" and a big partition that
> contains "/" (root), "/home" and "swap".
> Filesystems are ext4 (root, boot and home)
> When I boot my system, cryptsetup asks for my password, but even if
> correct, does not accept it with this error message:
> "cryptsetup: unknown fstype. Bad password or option?"
> I thought I had mistyped my password during setup, so I formatted and
> reinstalled with the same method. It didn't work.
> I noticed that GRUB2 entry for linux does an "insmod ext2", but it does not
> accept "insmod ext4" as I don't have any /boot/grub/ext4.mod file, and even
> removing it does not solve the problem.
> What do I have to do?
>

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