Hi all,
Something distrubing happened on my FreeNAS box tonight and I wanted to discuss it here to see if it was a bug or just user error.
I am was running FreeNAS 8.3.1-BETA3 and recently upgraded to 8.3.1-RC1 through the GUI.
My System is:
Intel Core i3-3220T
16 GB RAM
2 x 2TB HD in Raid Z2 with FDE
After the upgrade I auto-imported my volumes and used the GELI key and the paraphrase to decrypt and get running again and everything worked great. I haven't rebooted my NAS for weeks until tonight. After the reboot it wouldn't accept my paraphrase to decrypt the drives and gave the following error in the console messages:
I tried the GELI key and a combination of both and rebooting but got the same error each time. A grey pop-up box would also display something to the effect of the password is incorrect.
In my haste I tried an auto-import again with the same paraphrase and key which seemed to decrypt the volume (as seen through the console messages) but would not mount as I hadn't removed the previous volume and so it wouldn't have two with the same name.
I then tried decrypting one more time from the Storage tab with just the paraphrase. It again stated the GELI key was incorrect, displayed the grey pop-up box saying an error had occured and then all my drives displayed and were usable again.
So from what I can tell it wouldn't let me decrypt from the storage tab. I managed to decrypt via auto-import then when I tried again through the storage tab it threw an error since the drives were already decrypted and all it had to do was mount them. Needless to say I am worried that the next time I power cycle the machine I won't be able to decrypt my drives.
Something distrubing happened on my FreeNAS box tonight and I wanted to discuss it here to see if it was a bug or just user error.
I am was running FreeNAS 8.3.1-BETA3 and recently upgraded to 8.3.1-RC1 through the GUI.
My System is:
Intel Core i3-3220T
16 GB RAM
2 x 2TB HD in Raid Z2 with FDE
After the upgrade I auto-imported my volumes and used the GELI key and the paraphrase to decrypt and get running again and everything worked great. I haven't rebooted my NAS for weeks until tonight. After the reboot it wouldn't accept my paraphrase to decrypt the drives and gave the following error in the console messages:
Code:
Mar 19 20:07:54 freenas manage.py: [middleware.exceptions:38] [MiddlewareError: Volume could not be imported: 3 devices failed to decrypt]
I tried the GELI key and a combination of both and rebooting but got the same error each time. A grey pop-up box would also display something to the effect of the password is incorrect.
In my haste I tried an auto-import again with the same paraphrase and key which seemed to decrypt the volume (as seen through the console messages) but would not mount as I hadn't removed the previous volume and so it wouldn't have two with the same name.
I then tried decrypting one more time from the Storage tab with just the paraphrase. It again stated the GELI key was incorrect, displayed the grey pop-up box saying an error had occured and then all my drives displayed and were usable again.
So from what I can tell it wouldn't let me decrypt from the storage tab. I managed to decrypt via auto-import then when I tried again through the storage tab it threw an error since the drives were already decrypted and all it had to do was mount them. Needless to say I am worried that the next time I power cycle the machine I won't be able to decrypt my drives.