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

[Sam Morris]

Jonas Meurer wrote:
> On 04/03/2006 Sam Morris wrote:
>> A few days after running into this bug I upgraded my system, and I 
>> now use swap partitions instead of files.
>> 
>> For the sake of anyone else who runs into this problem, I had 512 
>> MB of RAM and a 1 GB swap file, /swap.
> 
> do you mean, that you cannot reproduce this bug any more?
> 
> or did you simply change your system setup, and therefore not any 
> longer suffer from the bug?

This is the case, yes. :(

> if this bug still applies for you when using an encrypted swap file, 
> how exactly does the crash look like? do you get any messages, is the
>  screen frozen, or are you still able to press enter, but the system 
> simply doesn't respond.

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 tried to reproduce this bug, used a 1 GB encrypted swap file at 
> /swap, and ran ... i've 512 MB RAM too, and my system crashed too in
> some way. it simply didn't respond, but still printed the keyboard
> keys i pressed. only it didn't recognize them. with a normal 1GB swap
> partition (not encrypted), and even with an unencrypted 1GB swap
> file, the same command doesn't "crash" my system. i'll try with an
> unencrypted 1GB swap file now, and we'll see.

This sounds similar to my situation. Were you at the console, or in X? 
It's possible the crash takes out X but not the text console.

> it would be great, if you could try to reproduce the bug (best with 
> cryptsetup 1.0.2+1.0.3-rc2-1) by running the perl command above.

I'll try to give it a go at some point now that we (possibly) have a 
simple way to reproduce the crash.

> also, could you provide more information about your system? i.e.
> which kernel version did you use, which architecture are you running,
> etc.

i386 (Athlon XP 2500+ cpu) with Debian's 2.6.15-1-k7 kernel.

> ... jonas

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