When I enter my password on the (gnome) login screen, the screen just reloads.
I can still log in on a tty console. Login is successful but I get the error
Fedora Linux 36 (Thirty Six) Kernel 6.2,15-188.fc36.>86_64 on an >86_64 (tty2)
thinkpad login: ga325
Password:
(mount.c:68): Messages from underlying mount program:
(mount.c:72): No free loop device
(mount.c:72): (crypto-c:318): Error: no free loop devices
(pam_mount.c:522): mount of /scratch/crypt/home-ga325.luks failed
Last login: Wed Sep 11 28:41:31 on tty5
--- ga325: /scratch/users/ga325: change directory failed: Permission denied
Logging in with home = "/"
-bash: /scratch/users/ga325/.bash_profile: Permission denied
My home dir is shown as completely empty.
The luks file is large (180GB) and still exists.
I don’t know what could have caused that. I have never (intentionally) messed with ‘deeper’ Linux functionality.
From my debugging attempts, the following may be useful
journalctl -xe:
start job for unit session-2.scope has finished successfully.
The job identifier is 3128
22:48:11 thinkpad login[1795]: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user ga325(uid=217589) by LOGIN(uid=0)
22:48:11 thinkpad login[1795]: pam_sss(login:session): Request to sssd failed. Conect ion refused
22:48:11 thinkpad audit[1795]: AUC avc: denied ( getattr ) for pid=1795 com="login" path=" /run/mount/utab" dev="tr
22:48:11 thinkpad audit[17951: AUC avc: denied ( read ) for pid=1795 com="login" name="utab" dev="tmpfs" ino=696 s
22:48:11 thinkpad audit[1795]: AUC avc: denied ( open ) for pid=1795 com="login" path="/run/mount /utab" dev="tmpf:
22:48:11 thinkpad audit[1873]: AUC avc: denied ( execute ) for pid=1873 com="login" name="mount .crypt" dev="mmebi
22:48:11 thinkpad audit[1873]: AUC avc: denied ( entrypoint ) for pid=1873 comm="login" path="/usr/sbin/mount .cryp
22:48:11 thinkpad login[17951: (mount .c:68): Messages from underlying mount program:
22:48:11 thinkpad login[1795]: (mount.c:72): No free loop device
22:48:11 thinkpad login[1795]: (mount.c:72): (crypto.c:310): Error: no free loop devices
22:48:11 thinkpad login[1795]: (pam_mount.c:522): mount of /scratch/crypt/home-ga325.luks failed
22:48:11 thinkpad audit[1795]: USER_START pid=1795 uid=0 auid=217589 ses=2 sub,j=system_u:system_r: local_login_t:s8-s8
22:48:11 thinkpad audit[1795]: CRED_REFR pid=1795 uid=0 auid=217589 ses=2 sub j=system_u:system_r: local_login_t:s8-s8:
22:48:11 thinkpad audit[1795]: USER_LOGIN pid=1795 uid=0 auid=217589 ses=2 subj-system_u:system_r: local_login_t:s8-s8
22:48:11 thinkpad login[1795]: LOGIN ON tty2 BY ga325
22:48:11 thinkpad setroubleshoot[1308]: SELinux is preventing gnome-shell from read access on the lnk_file /scratch/l
service sssd status:
cat /etc/fstab:
df -h:
Questions:
- Is this an sssd problem or a mounting problem?
- How to debug/fix it?
- Can I recover my data from just the luks file?