Bug#351393: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#351393: Might as well close this

[David Härdeman]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:20:10PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote:
>On 06/03/2006 Jonas Meurer wrote:
>> > As far as I remember, the system literally froze. I was running Xorg
>> > (6.9 with the nvidia driver) at the time and I think even the mouse
>> > cursor wouldn't move.
>> 
>> i just tested this now, as i was on the console last time. i can verify
>> that X freezes completely. and i tested the same command with 1GB
>> swapfile and without any active swap in X too. no freeze, mouse still
>> moves, ctrl+c stops the command after some seconds.
>
>i've reconsidered the whole issue, and came to the conclusion, that
>the bug must be either in kernel loopback support, device-mapper support
>or dm-crypt support. it may be even in cryptsetup(-luks), but i don't
>believe that.

Since cryptsetup is not involved once the mapping is setup, and since it 
would be a kernel bug anyway if it crashed due to cryptsetup 
misbehaving, it seems very likely that this bug should be reassigned to 
the kernel package.

Re,
David