Sumuri Paladin Forensic Carbon 8.05 Toolbox Crash with LUKS and LVM

While trying to examine a Linux machine with encrypted LVMs in Forensic Mode, the Paladin Toolbox GUI crashes and won’t restart, either from the GUI or /usr/bin/toolbox.

Since Forensic Mode requires you to use Paladin Toolbox to mount read+write and prevents you from mounting storage read+write from the command line, you are stuck.

Solution

Before decrypting and mounting the LVMs, mount your target disk read-write with the GUI Toolbox

Mount Target Disk with GUI

Open a Terminal

Find Source Partition

sudo fdisk -l

Decrypt Source

sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/nvme0n1p6 xxx

Process LVMs

sudo vgscan

sudo lvscan

Mount Filesystem

sudo mkdir /tmp/home

sudo mount -o ro,noload /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-home /tmp/home

Process Evidence