Encrypted Swap will not mount at boot
I am having an issue with Lab 10.2: Encrypted Swap
I already have an LVM logical volume which contains my entire root partition, it is LUKS encrypted with the passphrase entered interactively at boot.
I am able to create, encrypt, and activate the swap partition successfully inside of a linux session and I edited /etc/fstab and /etc/crypttab with what I believe are the correct entries to start it up at boot.
The encrypted swap will not mount on reboot. The kernel boot log shows:
systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device dev-mapper-swap\x2dcrypt.device
systemd[1]: Dependency failed for /dev/mapper/crypt-swap
systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Swap
My /etc/fstab entry is:/dev/mapper/crypt-swap none swap defaults 0 0
My /etc/crypttab entry is:crypt-swap /dev/mapper/vg-swap /dev/urandom swap
/dev/mapper/vg-swap is the mapped device name of the swap partition contained on an LVM logical volume on my system.
crypt-swap is the mapped device name of the swap partition when unlocked/unencrypted.
Since I already have one encrypted partition(root) for which I interactively enter a passphrase at boot, how do I get the second encrypted partition to prompt for a passphrase, or load a keyfile? I've spent alot of time screwing with --key-file=xxx in the 3rd field of /etc/crypttab, but I get a different set of kernel log errors in that case and can only decrypt and mount the encrypted swap manually from within a linux session.
Not sure if this is some sort of systemd specific issue or not. Can anyone help me or point me in the right direction with this?
Comments
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Hi,
Can you try creating a new partition? Your current issue may be related to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1160429 or https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708574 , so please use another partition for this lab and not the root one.
Regards,
Luis.
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Thank you for replying, after several further attempts I did also realize this is likely related to the bugs you referenced, I will take your suggestion and create the encrypted swap on a non-root partition.0
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Excellent, it's a pleasure

Luis.0
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