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

[Jonas Meurer]

On 05/03/2006 Sam Morris wrote:
> >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 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.

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

i've amd64 (Athlon64) with a custom 2.6.15 kernel.

it would be great if you could verify that on the console input is still
printed but the system doesn't respond.

i'll contact upstream tomorrow.

but maybe the bug is not in cryptsetup, but in device-mapper, that could
be tested by using another /dev/mapper/* file as swap, and see whether
the system freezes.

...
 jonas