i wish that i could help more. i do still have the corrupted partition (and the identical working one) and will try suggestions, but will have to overwrite it soon.
the dm-crypt discussion was brief and afaik to the effect that the header format is well documented, so if you have a similar header on another partition, you repair the corrupted one by using dd for the homologous parts. e.g. 2007-06-08 07:41:52 GMT on the same url. a web search reveals data corruption stories. one person found that strace enabled opening (didn't work for me). there might be dm issues in addition to dm-crypt or luks issues (brief scan of dm mailing list subjects). i am physically limited in computer use else i would give you urls. thanks. -- Webmaster: do you believe that people will (a) switch browsers to view your "best viewed with" page or (b) go to your competitor? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]