Ubuntu
cryptsetup package

[gutsy] cryptsetup luksFormat fails.

Bug #117502 reported by hunger on 2007-05-29

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	cryptsetup (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/mapper/vg0-test fails with the attached strace:

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hunger (hunger) wrote on 2007-05-29:

strace cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/mapper/vg0-test Edit (4.0 KiB, text/plain)

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Reinhard Tartler (siretart) wrote on 2007-05-29:

either cryptsetup needs to be taught about our new libdevmapper, or libdevmapper's behavior must be fixed to behave exactly like in other distros. I currently don't know enough about the debmapper API, so I'm subscribing keybuk, as I know he does.

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote on 2007-05-29:

Our devmapper does behave identically to other distros.

The only difference in our package is a worthwhile patch to resolve a race condition in the code between stat(), unlink() and mknod() -- changed to stat(), mknod(), rename()

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hunger (hunger) wrote on 2007-05-30:

I was STUPID!

It says that I need to type an "uppercase yes"... and I ignored the uppercase.

The message might be improved to read "uppercase YES".