Locked Volume - Volume Failed Unlock (after changing encryption passphrase)

[darowley]

Dell XPS 8700 / i7 / 32GB RAM
Freenas 9.10.1
RaidZ2
8x5TB drives

I DO have a few backups over the last few months of my geli.key and the config...

Last night I decided to make another backup and then I thought, I don't know the passphrase to my encrypted disks... I'll just reset it again and make a backup. So I did. Like I have before. There was an error message that showed up at the top of the screen, but disappeared before I could read the whole thing. I restarted. Now the volume is LOCKED, and when trying to unlock, it says "Volume Failed Unlock".

I tried to detach the volume then reattach but I just kept getting errors when trying to decrypt the disk (yes, I tried different backup keys). And it would only show 3 of the 8 disks in THAT list (but all my disks are visible via the volume manager and via "Import Disks"). Also, in that decrypt disk process (Step 2 of 3), do I need to enter / attach the geli.key AND type the passphrase? or is it ONE or the OTHER???

I then did a restore to my working config last night so my volume is attached, but LOCKED.

Not sure what to do next.

I don't know, but I"m thinking that some of my disks are encrypted with one key and some another...

 

[dlavigne]

Anything in /var/log/messages?

 

[darowley]

I'm new to this, so I might need exact instructions... but it shows this:
And i have attached the messages file.
It looks like the file "turned over". How would I find the correct one from two nights ago or yesterday morning?


Also, I'm at a point where I "think" I need to decrypt these disks (possibly using a different machine). How can this be done?
I have been using geli attach -k /mnt/565.key ada8p2 and it seemed to work on 3 of the disks (the three visible disks 6, 7, & 8 that show up in step 2 of the import volume process), but I have a feeling that it doesn't actually decrypt the disk, i'm thinking it just temporarily unlocks it.
How can I fully decrypt the disks using another machine and SHOULD I even try that?


=====line 1 col 0 lines from top 1 ============================================
Mar 17 00:00:00 TANK newsyslog[76035]: logfile turned over due to size>100K
Mar 17 00:00:00 TANK syslog-ng[1559]: Configuration reload request received, rel
Mar 17 00:00:03 TANK collectd[72342]: statvfs(/mnt/LOGS) failed: No such file or
Mar 17 00:00:13 TANK collectd[72342]: statvfs(/mnt/LOGS) failed: No such file or
Mar 17 00:00:23 TANK collectd[72342]: statvfs(/mnt/LOGS) failed: No such file or
Mar 17 00:00:33 TANK collectd[72342]: statvfs(/mnt/LOGS) failed: No such file or
Mar 17 00:00:43 TANK collectd[72342]: statvfs(/mnt/LOGS) failed: No such file or
Mar 17 00:00:53 TANK collectd[72342]: statvfs(/mnt/LOGS) failed: No such file or
Mar 17 00:01:03 TANK collectd[72342]: statvfs(/mnt/LOGS) failed: No such file or
Mar 17 00:01:13 TANK collectd[72342]: statvfs(/mnt/LOGS) failed: No such file or
Mar 17 00:01:23 TANK collectd[72342]: statvfs(/mnt/LOGS) failed: No such file or
Mar 17 00:01:33 TANK collectd[72342]: statvfs(/mnt/LOGS) failed: No such file or
Mar 17 00:01:43 TANK collectd[72342]: statvfs(/mnt/LOGS) failed: No such file or
Mar 17 00:01:53 TANK collectd[72342]: statvfs(/mnt/LOGS) failed: No such file or
Mar 17 00:02:03 TANK collectd[72342]: statvfs(/mnt/LOGS) failed: No such file or
Mar 17 00:02:13 TANK collectd[72342]: statvfs(/mnt/LOGS) failed: No such file or
Mar 17 00:02:23 TANK collectd[72342]: statvfs(/mnt/LOGS) failed: No such file or
file "/var/log/messages", 4585 lines

 

[darowley]

Anyone know much about this error?
geli: Cannot read metadata from ada4p2: Invalid argument.

 

[dlavigne]

Were you able to resolve this and unlock your volume?