HOWTO: Full encrypted system: root, home, swap

[Glarbl_Blarbl]

hello! after upgrading my kernel I now have to type the passphrase twice at boot, maybe overlooked something... Anyone else experienced this? I don't want to have to type the passphrase more than once. any ideas how to fix this?

I experienced the same problem the first time I followed this howto... Then after I tried the suspend to disk and subsequently reinstalled it went away.

Not much help, I know.

One other thing: I tried doing an apt-get dist-upgrade to dapper and totally fried my setup... I probably could have salvaged it with a week or two of research and trial/error, but I can't live without a laptop for that long :/

Why the hell I didn't make a backup first I'll never know.. Oh well, three months of my mailing list account down the tubes.. So my advice to everyone reading this: put down the crack pipe and back up your **** before you go trying to upgrade your encrypted system!

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[angrylittleman]

Glarbl_Blarbl - so suspend to disk did not work for you either? My system suspends now (unencrypted) but I don't want to reinstall unless I am sure that it will work correctly.

[Glarbl_Blarbl]

Glarbl_Blarbl - so suspend to disk did not work for you either? My system suspends now (unencrypted) but I don't want to reinstall unless I am sure that it will work correctly.

AngryLittleMan:
Umm... I was the same one who posted re: suspend to disk before :} ... Not a separate confirmation, sorry..

Specifically, what happened after I rebooted from suspend to disk was this:

entered the root passphrase
waited a few seconds and was dropped into the fsck recovery mode... Tried to manually mount the /dev/mapper/home dir and had no joy (actually tried this a few times to rule out typos).

I tried to simply reformat/encrypt the partition but for some reason it never worked properly until I started from a fresh install, maybe I should have chrooted first? Obviously a lot of this topic flies straight over my head... This is the first time I have tried to do any encryption on a system-wide basis.


hth,
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[angrylittleman]

Glarbl Blarbl- Sorry, I was a little excited about reading asking this question. My bad on not remembering your previous post.

ALM

[biasquez]

____ERROR____
[4294729.507000]VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev dm-0
[4294729.542000]cramfs: wrong magic
mount: mont point dev does not exist
pivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init:428: cannot open /dev/console : No such file
[4294729.563000] Kernel panic - not syncing : Attempted to kill init !
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i have this problem but i don't have an idea about it. i tried to set manual password and to set password into file /etc/keys/root like setting about /home.
PLZ, HELP! tHZ

[michwill]

how exactly do you select "server profile"?

[josh34]

how exactly do you select "server profile"?

To select a "server profile" during instalation, boot from the Ubuntu install CD and when the prompt appears, type "server" and then hit enter.

[michwill]

To select a "server profile" during instalation, boot from the Ubuntu install CD and when the prompt appears, type "server" and then hit enter.

Alright, got it, now I can't get "cryptsetup" to install. apt-get is telling me that it "couldn't stat source package list" and that cryptsetup has no installation candidate. Any suggestions?

Thanks for the reply

[michwill]

forgot to 'apt-get update'. . .

[kubuntu2k6]

anyway, anyone got this working after a dist-upgrade? (dapper) after upgrading kernels etc. how did you do it?