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On Tuesday, March 08, 2016 10:41:44 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> Hi folks |
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> I’m trying to follow an article¹ on setting up a fully encrypted system for |
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> my soon-to-arrive laptop. It and others (e.g. ² in a very condensed form) |
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> simply luksFormat a block device, then luksOpen it and run pvcreate on that. |
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That is the general idea. |
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> I’ve never used LVM before, it’s only installed as a dependency for various |
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> FS tools. Hence, my LVM install is basically pure vanilla. But when I try to |
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> follow those articles, I get: |
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> kern $ cryptsetup status /dev/mapper/tp |
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> /dev/mapper/tp is active. |
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> [...] |
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> kern $ pvcreate /dev/mapper/tp |
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> /run/lvm/lvmetad.socket: connect failed: No such file or directory |
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> WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to internal scanning. |
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> Device /dev/mapper/tp not found (or ignored by filtering). |
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> The filter rule in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf simply says the default: |
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> filter = [ "r|/dev/nbd.*|", "a/.*/" ] |
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> Meaning ‘include everything except /dev/nbd*’. |
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This is the only filter-line in that file? |
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> Can you give me a hint what I might be missing? Perhaps I need to set some |
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> other of the many options in lvm.conf? |
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> Gratefully awaiting any helpful nudge. |
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> ¹ |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sakaki%27s_EFI_Install_Guide/Preparing_the_LUK |
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> S-LVM_Filesystem_and_Boot_USB_Key ² |
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> http://www.pavelkogan.com/2014/05/23/luks-full-disk-encryption/ |
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What do you get when running: |
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pvcreate -vv /dev/mapper/tp |
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I have followed similar howtos and never actually had an issues like you are |
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describing. |
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