[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#470858: cryptsetup: Better "fail" message if already opened by luks

[Engywuck]

Package: cryptsetup
Version: 2:1.0.6~pre1+svn45-1
Severity: wishlist

I just spent 2 hours figuring out why neither cryptdisks_start nor 
cryptsetup luksOpen would work but give a "Can not access device" error.

Turned out it was an already opened device :)

It would be nice if the failure notice would tell so or at least hint at it.

Another suggestion (not worth another bugreport): please add a newline 
after the message "<device> (stoppping)..." of cryptdisks_stop. Currently 
the next prompt starts right after the .... 
The same applies for cryptdisks_start.

Thanks in advance

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cryptsetup depends on:
ii  dmsetup                      2:1.02.24-3 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libc6                        2.7-6       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1           2:1.02.24-3 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libpopt0                     1.10-3      lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libuuid1                     1.40.6-1    universally unique id library

cryptsetup recommends no packages.

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