[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#554600: luksClose fails:Device (null) doesn't exist or access denied

[Milan Broz]

On 05/23/2010 09:54 PM, ilf wrote:
> Has anyone managed to work around this without having to reboot? 
> Restarting /etc/init.d/cryptdisks doesn't helk.

It is quite possible that this is regression upstream
(luksClose on underlying device which disappeared, I'll check it).

Anyway, you can use "dmsetup remove <device>" as temporary workaround
if you need clean something temporarily,
(<device> is the same like luksClose parameter)

Milan