[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#582481: initramfs-tools: System won't boot anymore if it was encrypted by debian squeeze setup

[Jonas Meurer]

hey,

On 21/05/2010 maximilian attems wrote:
> On Fri, 21 May 2010, Andre Pawlowski wrote:
> > This bugreport was written with the initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-amd64.bak before updating yesterday
> > to initramfs-tools 0.94.4. I have an encrytped lvm which contains every partition except /boot.
> > It was created by the Debian squeeze setup when I installed the system. Today I tried to boot
> > the system with the new initramfs-tools and after I entered the password I get this message:
> > 
> > kernel-provided name 'dm-0' and NAME='/mapper/sda2_crypt' disagree, please use SYMLINK+=
> > or change the kernel to provide the proper name
> > 
> > This bug appears after I upgraded
> > 
> > libudev0
> > udev
> > insserv
> > groff-base
> > initramfs-tools
> > libglib2.0-0
> > libglib2.0-dev
> > libglib2.0-data
> > libgps19
> > libgudev-1.0-0
> > libjack0
> > libschroedinger-1.0-0
> > libwebkit-1.0-common
> > libwebkit-1.0-2
> > xserver-xorg-video-intel
> > xterm
> > 
> > because I only changed the initrd.img and after that I could boot the system again 
> > I think it is a bug in initramfs-tools.
> 
> no we dont set udev symlinks, so it is either a crytsetup
> or an udev bug.

i strongly believe it's a udev bug. the same warnings appear on my
system since last udev upgrade. the apear both at cryptdisks and lvm
initscript invokation.

didn't have time to further investigate it though.

greetings,
 jonas
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