Re: geli password prompt does not work



On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 08:24:15PM +0200, Martin wrote:
+>
+> Hi,
+>
+> my /usr/home is a geli-partition. It always worked fine.
+> Today I compiled a fresh kernel and after the password
+> prompt nothing moves anymore. The system seems to be in
+> a frozen state (I cannot enter the password,
+> Ctrl+Alt+Del does nothing).
+>
+> The kernel configuration is GENERIC.
+>
+> The last known working kernel version was:
+> FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Mar 2 00:54:06 CET 2006

Could you send me the output of:

# geli dump /dev/<foo> | head -10

/dev/<foo> is where your /usr/home is stored without .eli suffix.

Also, please increase debug level to 1 (kern.geom.eli.debug) and send me
what is printed on the console as well.

Thanks.

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