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I upgraded my system to Ubuntu 14.04LTS, I encrypted the home & the swap partition during the installation since it was already encrypted in the old version.

But later I noticed swap partition is not used & using the gparted I found the swaps is damaged, I re-formatted the swap partition as Linux-swap & fixed the UUID in the fstab then cleared the crypttab, then swap was working fine but without the encryption. As soon as I run the ecryptfs-setup-swap to encrypt the swap partition then reboot the system it gets damaged.

This link shows the steps I followed

Any idea how to fix this?

@muru this is the output, & sda6 is the swap part.

sudo blkid

/dev/sda1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="5450-4444" TYPE="vfat" 
/dev/sda2: LABEL="RECOVERY" UUID="DAAC6031AC600A79" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="WinSys" UUID="E2D0647AD0645737" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="96e501a8-40ee-4d08-bcb2-2396a99abd94" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda7: UUID="348874d5-f654-4640-bbad-0b377e545334" TYPE="ext4" 


sudo lsblk

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 698.7G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0  39.2M  0 part 
├─sda2   8:2    0  13.2G  0 part 
├─sda3   8:3    0   100G  0 part 
├─sda4   8:4    0     1K  0 part 
├─sda5   8:5    0  42.9G  0 part /
├─sda6   8:6    0  14.3G  0 part 
└─sda7   8:7    0 528.2G  0 part /home
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom

Hope its readable now.

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  • to be honest unless you run a branch of the nsa you should be fine with an unencrypted swap, it really is only an extension of the ram and usually does not have enough of a process stored on it to be that much of a risk
    – sbergeron
    Jul 31, 2014 at 3:59
  • Welcome to AskUbuntu! There seem to be problems right now with some swap encryption. askubuntu.com/questions/91292/… , but you could check this as well. askubuntu.com/questions/248158/…
    – No Time
    Jul 31, 2014 at 4:25
  • This what I thought first time when I installed the 14 LTS, when it was released directly, that may be there is problem with the encryption & I left it w/o encrypted swap till now, & now I tried again but same problem, how come this bug (if any) not fixed till now?
    – Adscnet
    Jul 31, 2014 at 15:54

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I doubt it was damaged. Encrypted swap shows up as of type Unknown in tools like GParted, because the partition is filled with random data and such tools have no way of knowing that it really is an encrypted swap partition.

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  • Yes Muru, its Unknown, but why the system is not able to recognize it as soon as I encrypt it. Without running the encryption setup on the swap partition, swap is working fine recognized & utilized by the OS. Also I had setup another new laptop and had no problem encryption works fine on home & swap partition !! I can't figure out what I'm missing in this setup. I already used the encryption for last 2 years with the old Ubuntu versions. Any suggestion.
    – Adscnet
    Jul 31, 2014 at 15:57
  • I already reformatted the swaps part & now I'm using w/o encryption, so the swapon -s shows this results:Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda6 partition 14998524 224 -1
    – Adscnet
    Jul 31, 2014 at 16:25
  • do you want me to do the encryption on swap then past the swapon -s results?
    – Adscnet
    Jul 31, 2014 at 16:28
  • yes I know, but cant live without encryption. I'll prepare the data and send it to you. Thanks in advance.
    – Adscnet
    Jul 31, 2014 at 16:50
  • results after encrypting swap & before reboot: -- [ sudo cat /etc/crypttab ] [ cryptswap1 UUID=6ed3aa70-2d53-4ba7-a03c-034959db49bf /dev/urandom swap,cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 ] [ sudo blkid | grep swap ] [ /dev/mapper/cryptswap1: UUID="9cff2ac3-9bed-438d-829a-2b97f91da0d1" TYPE="swap" ] [ sudo swapon -s ] [ Filename Type Size Used Priority ] [ /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 partition 14998524 836612 -1 ]
    – Adscnet
    Jul 31, 2014 at 17:29

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