[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#538221: Bug#538221: cryptsetup: Command failed: device-mapper: create ioctl failed: Device or resource busy

Jonas Meurer jonas at freesources.org
Thu Jul 30 23:58:45 UTC 2009


Hey Stuart,

thanks for your bugreport.

On 24/07/2009 Stuart Pook wrote:
> Crytsetup 2:1.0.7~rc1-2 often fails to open my devices. Sometimes it works but I'm not exactly sure under
> what conditions. Downgrading to 2:1.0.6+20090405.svn49-1 from testing works.
> 
> : root; cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mapper/vg0-services_var services_var --key-file /tmp/xx
> key slot 1 unlocked.
> Command failed: device-mapper: create ioctl failed: Device or resource busy
> : root; apt-get -t testing install cryptsetup/testing

this sounds like a udev race condition. could you give cryptsetup
2:1.0.7-1 from debian/unstable a try? and in case that you're still able
to reproduce the bug, please provide the output of 'strace cryptsetup
luksOpen ...'.

greetings,
 jonas
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