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During an upgrade from Fedora 15 to 17, I installed into an existing LUKS encrypted partition. I'm sure I borked the boot loader options, because the new system boots to GRUB. When I attempt to fix the problems from the boot cd and run cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda3 cryptLVM, I get that error.
I read about header problems and the cryptsetup man page lists a "metadata repair" option for "benign" problems. I don't know what the trouble is and looking for the simplest answer. And yeah, I backed up (^_^)
xtian
Posted 2012-06-14T23:58:04.190
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Actaully its a seven year old laptop! woot! It takes me a year to fix an installation on the desktop every time I upgrade. Last time I skipped and went from Fedora 11 to 15 when fedora forums started ragging on me for EOL. Im seriously thinking of CentOS and a 10 year support so I don't have to do this every 6 mo. – xtian – 2012-06-15T00:08:58.387
1Its like this. Linux just wants to, beggs, and cajoles the user to do more then they are capable of doing. LUKS is a whole new thing for me. I gripe, but I do enjoy Linux, only installation is not my favorite... – xtian – 2012-06-15T00:12:13.830
It's a lot better than it was 10 or 15 years ago. – LawrenceC – 2012-06-15T01:47:10.387