Martin Howe - 2022-03-07

System is Linux Mint 20.3, x64, VeraCrypt 1.25.9.

Due to a power cut, the machine was shut off suddenly. On rebooting later, VeraCrypt could not open any volumes, citing a generic message about PIMs, passwords, etc.; in short, it hadn't a clue why it couldn't open the volumes. I could open the same volumes on another machine and on the same machine from a live USB stick, so clearly VeraCrypt maintains some sort of metadata that got corrupted.

So I rebooted into the system, and ran the uninstall script, rebooted, then reinstalled it; no luck, the same issue again. So it looks as if the uninstall script needs something equivalent to --purge in apt, to totally render a machine as if VeraCrypt had never been installed.

Or is there something I've missed?