[xubuntu-users] Disk encryption boot oddity

Peter Flynn peter at silmaril.ie
Wed Mar 30 20:09:14 UTC 2016


I encrypted the hard disk of my Dell D810 when installing 15.10 and it's
been working fine -- with one oddity: when I give the encryption
passphrase at boot time, I get two messages at the bottom of the screen:

cryptsetup: unknown fstype, bad password or options?
cryptsetup: sda5_crypt set up successfully

It then proceeds to boot normally without error. My disk layout is:

Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev             1013792        0   1013792   0% /dev
tmpfs             206268     5940    200328   3% /run
/dev/dm-1       75506800 56022024  15626140  79% /
tmpfs            1031332    18412   1012920   2% /dev/shm
tmpfs               5120        4      5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfs            1031332        0   1031332   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1         240972   145562     82969  64% /boot
cgmfs                100        0       100   0% /run/cgmanager/fs
tmpfs             206268       12    206256   1% /run/user/1000

As it works, it's not really important, but I'm curious to know why it
thinks it's an unknown fstype when it clearly isn't. It's also a message
which would obviously cause a newcomer to get worried, which is usually
A Bad Thing...

///Peter





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