[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#544773: Bug#544773: Update to cryptsetup 2:1.0.7-2 breaks booting

[Paul Millar]

On Saturday 05 September 2009 12:50:35 Jonas Meurer wrote:
> thanks. please also send me the output of the following commands:
> 
> # ls -l /dev/mapper

vedrfolnir:~# ls -l /dev/mapper
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 60 2009-09-04 19:06 control
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      7 2009-09-04 19:06 sdb2_crypt -> ../dm-0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      7 2009-09-04 19:06 vedrfolnir-home -> ../dm-6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      7 2009-09-04 19:06 vedrfolnir-root -> ../dm-1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      7 2009-09-04 19:06 vedrfolnir-swap_1 -> ../dm-4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      7 2009-09-04 19:06 vedrfolnir-tmp -> ../dm-5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      7 2009-09-04 19:06 vedrfolnir-usr -> ../dm-2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      7 2009-09-04 19:06 vedrfolnir-var -> ../dm-3
vedrfolnir:~#

> # cat /etc/mtab

vedrfolnir:~# cat /etc/mtab
/dev/dm-1 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/dm-6 /home ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/dm-5 /tmp ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/dm-2 /usr ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/dm-3 /var ext3 rw 0 0
rpc_pipefs /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd nfsd rw 0 0
vedrfolnir:~#

> i guess that you discovered the same bug as #544487.

Yes, that bug looks pretty similar.  Certainly the sym. links from /dev/mapper 
to /dev/dm* mentioned in that bug are also present here.


> could you try downgrading to cryptsetup 2:1.0.7-1, regenerating the
> initramfs and see whether the bug disappears? if it's related to device
> files in /dev/mapper being links to /dev/dm-* then the bug should be
> reproducible with old cryptsetup as well.

I'll give that a go and report back what happens.

Cheers,

Paul.