[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#387158: cryptsetup: problem configuring encrypted swap

[Dennis Furey]

Package: cryptsetup
Version: 2:1.0.4~rc2-1
Severity: minor


The instructions in CryptoSwap.Howto don't work as written because
/etc/init.d/cryptdisks considers an existing unencrypted swap
partition to be a valid filesystem and refuses to overwrite it. A
workaround is to create it manually using cryptsetup and mkswap. The
check needs to be smarter or the instructions amended. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages cryptsetup depends on:
ii  dmsetup                      2:1.02.08-1 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdevmapper1.02             2:1.02.08-1 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libgcrypt11                  1.2.3-2     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0                1.2-1       library for common error values an
ii  libpopt0                     1.10-3      lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libuuid1                     1.39-1      universally unique id library

cryptsetup recommends no packages.

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