[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#467200: Bug#467200: Solution found, need input from cryptsetup, udev, hal, devmapper maintainers [was: Re: gnome-mount: Unable to mount encrypted volume]

[Sam Morris]

On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 16:47 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> On 21/04/2008 Sam Morris wrote:
> > My solution is to add the following rules to udev's configuration:
> > 
> >         KERNEL!="dm-*", GOTO="device_mapper_end"
> >         ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="device_mapper_end"
> >         IMPORT{program}="/sbin/dmsetup export -j $major -m $minor"
> >         LABEL="device_mapper_end"
> > 
> >         ENV{DM_NAME}=="temporary-cryptsetup-*", OPTIONS+="ignore_device"
> > 
> > This tells udev to not send out a udev event if the device-mapper
> > mapping name starts with "temporary-cryptsetup-". HAL will therefore
> > never 'see' the temporary cryptsetup mapping that causes this problem.
> > 
> > The final line of the above configuration should probably be added to
> > cryptsetup's configuration, since the "temporary-cryptsetup-*" mappings
> > are a cryptsetup-specific implementation detail. Alternatively, HAL
> > itself can be modified to ignore udev events where DM_NAME starts with
> > "temporary-cryptsetup-*".
> 
> what's the current situation regarding this bug? should the cryptsetup
> package add a udev rules file containing the one line you suggested
> above?

Well, it works for me--but I don't know whether the rule should be added
by hal, cryptsetup, device-mapper or udev... at this stage in the
release process I'm tempted to say, whichever one fixes it for lenny,
and sort things out later. :)

> 
> greetings,
>  jonas
-- 
Sam Morris
http://robots.org.uk/

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