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(solved, thanks guys!) "No key available with this passphrase" despite it being the correct passphrase (self.linux)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by helpmyusernamewontfi to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Edit: Turns out you guys were right, I entered the setup password wrong for LUKs. I got this new Logitech keyboard I got for a gift and I type around 170wpm, but I've been having issues with it kind of lagging keys for some reason. What I did was I opened up a notepad and typed in my password a bunch of times and noticed whenever I would type something such as "stain" for example, it would come out at "stani" despite me looking at the keyboard and knowing that wasn't what I was typing. So I encrypted my drive with the wrong password, but figured out how to decrypt it that way. Thanks for the help doods!

Hello! I have a external drive I've encrypted with LUKs that has irreplaceable backups of mine, and for some reason no matter which PC I try it won't unlock despite it being the correct password. It doesn't give me anything else in the terminal other than what I put in the title.

I recently just backed up everything onto the external drive from my computer cause I was distro hopping. It's worked fine on my PC, I saved the password so I was able to mount it no problem before, but now it won't mount on any other PC I try. It isn't the end of the world since I can just try and copy old data from my computers drive before the format since I haven't downloaded anything yet that could overwrite anything important, but I'd still like to be able to get this external drive unlocked. As I've said, irreplaceable files of mine are on it so I'm hoping to get it working. Thank you!

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Need more info:

How did you encrypt it in the first place
What command are you using to try and mount it now?
Do you have any other identifying LUKS info about the volume? (sudo blkid /dev/whatever)

[–] helpmyusernamewontfi 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I encrypted it using Gnome Disks, haven't had any problems with it for years until now

I tried mounting it normally with Dolphin on KDE Plasma, after it was giving me an error I tried unlocking it in terminal via sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1 backups

Here's the output of the command you sent: /dev/sda1: UUID="109ffa3d-6181-43cf-a813-fdd285386866" TYPE="crypto_LUKS" PARTUUID="ac0402f1-01"

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Are you typing this passphrase by chance? Do you have it saved somewhere that you're positive is correct?

Try typing it out in a terminal window and see if it matches what you have saved. Special characters and incorrect keyboard mappings could be problematic.