cryptsetup attempts to get cannonical name of devices that have none

Bug #1079769 reported by Alexander Frankland
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
cryptsetup (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
cryptsetup (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Undecided
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Bug Description

In particuar, when cryptsetup tries to get the cannonical name of a swap partition, and fails.

NOTE: This error is not only a problem wiith ubuntu: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=671056

ocurred on: upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 with:

cryptsetup:
  Installed: 2:1.4.3-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2:1.4.3-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2:1.4.3-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

This error will occur every time a program of the user calls update-initramfs, which in turn calls cryptsetup

Technical error:
cryptsetup: WARNING: Failed to get cannonical name of /dev/sda#
(Where # is partition number)

information type: Private Security → Public Security
Logan Rosen (logan)
affects: ubuntu → cryptsetup (Ubuntu)
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
information type: Public Security → Public
Changed in cryptsetup (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Changed in cryptsetup (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Logan Rosen (logan) wrote :

Alexander, can you still reproduce this issue? It was closed in Debian because the maintainer could not reproduce it.

Changed in cryptsetup (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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