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Originally Posted by divyashree (Post 4029799)

I encrypted my hard disk with LUKS , the LVM which was my /home ,
During boot time ,it doesn't receive the password and asking again and again 3 times ..
I use RHEL5 Client.
Before asking for passphrase ,its giving an error as

What should I do to recover ???

I am also unable to mount the drive with a live cd :

The output of

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cryptsetup -v luksDump /dev/mapper/homevg-homevol

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LUKS header information for /dev/mapper/homevg-homevol

Version: 1
Cipher name: aes
Cipher mode: cbc-essiv:sha256
Hash spec: sha1
Payload offset: 1032
MK bits: 128
MK digest: 2a 77 66 d8 24 23 36 b1 c3 91 6d 0d 9d 1e ff 19 3f fe 16 67
MK salt: de 14 b0 ac 51 18 3c c0 97 77 40 31 38 07 fe f4
28 43 06 a9 a2 98 22 6c 67 fc af 71 fd 76 4d f9
MK iterations: 10
UUID: c0be1231-cf29-48ac-8cba-1bf98b180051

Key Slot 0: ENABLED
Iterations: 181173
Salt: f7 4a 8b 83 5f d4 ed e2 7f 42 42 38 eb bc 46 d2
fd b1 7c c5 83 f0 3e 34 83 0f ff 0f 32 95 54 17
Key material offset: 8
AF stripes: 4000
Key Slot 1: DISABLED
Key Slot 2: DISABLED
Key Slot 3: DISABLED
Key Slot 4: DISABLED
Key Slot 5: DISABLED
Key Slot 6: DISABLED
Key Slot 7: DISABLED

Any help is appreciated ..