Debian Squeeze bug: loop-aes automount on boot fails, manual mount works

[rodger ellis]

I thoch that loop-aes was built into the debian installer package "partman"
Max will confirm this.

rodger
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:35:04 +0100
> Von: ar <arichy at gmx.de>
> An: pkg-loop-aes-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Betreff: Debian Squeeze bug: loop-aes automount on boot fails, manual mount	works

> uname -a
> Linux xxx 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sat Oct 30 22:47:19 UTC 2010 i686
> GNU/Linux
> 
> loop-aes-utils Version: 2.16.2-1
> loop-aes-source Version: 3.3a-1
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just migrated from Lenny x86 to Squeeze x86.
> 
> Because in Squeeze there is no loop-aes-module package, I built the
> loop-aes-sources with m-a and installed them.
> 
> Mounting of my loop-aes encrypted partitions works, but only manual.
> 
> On system boot via fstab, there comes no password prompt after stating
> that the loop module was loaded, instead the system sits there and waits
> forever (at least 5 minutes). When I hit Ctrl-C, there come a couple of
> messages something like this: "I/O buffer error on loop device".
> 
> I actually use now the "noauto" option in fstab to disable boot mount.
> Then the system boots ok. Manual mounting of the loop-aes-partition
> also works fine.
> 
> Compiling the kernel-sources with deactivating the original loop block
> device did not help either.
> 
> booting with kernel option acpi=off did not help either.
> 
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