dmsetup errors should report more detail

[Robert Collins]

Binary package hint: evms

When my server rebooted last night, I found that the ubuntu kernels had lost their support for dm-bbr. However, it was very hard to diagnose that because the only error reported was:

'device-mapper: unknown target type' - followed by evms failing.

When device mapper calls fail in this case error EINVAL is returned, and the caller (evms) should log somewhere - preferrably somewhere accessible during the initramfs failure environment - kmsg or console - what precise devicer mapper call it had made that had failed.

[Sebastian Rode (sebastian-ro-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you?
Thanks in advance.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 17:40 +0000, Sebastian Rode wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you?
> Thanks in advance.

I'm not aware of anyone actively making dmsetup report it's errors more
usefully.

I'm not suffering the root cause that prompted this bug report, so I
can't actually tell either.

I would suggest filing this upstream as a feature request and then
closing the bug in ubuntu/marking it wishlist.

-Rob
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[Sebastian Rode (sebastian-ro-deactivatedaccount)]

Ok, I confirm this bug and mark it as needs forwarding upstream.

[Sebastian Rode (sebastian-ro-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=383342&aid=1917266&group_id=25076

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.