Bug#705000: cryptsetup now says: evms_activate is not available

Antoine Beaupré anarcat at koumbit.org
Mon Apr 8 15:45:53 UTC 2013


Package: dmsetup
Version: 2:1.02.74-7
Severity: grave

On my last reboot of my wheezy server, the crypto drives cannot be
mounted properly by the initramfs. I am not sure dmsetup is the culprit,
but cryptsetup didn't seem to have change since the last reboot, so I am
tempted to blame this on dmsetup.

Here's the error I get on boot:

cryptsetup: evms_activate is not available
Begin: Waiting for encrypted source device...
[...]
done.
      Check cryptops=source= bootarg: cat /proc/cmdline
      or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules; ls /dev
-r ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/358cfab7-cbb2-4a09-927c-f89c64423536 does
not exist. Dropping to a shell!
[... busybox...]
(initramfs)

And indeed, the UUID entry is missing, very odd. This UUID should be
pointing to /dev/sda5, which exists, but not the UUID.

I am sorry if this is not filed properly (ie. not on the right package),
but it's the only one I could think of that seem to have been updated
since the last reboot, although it's hard to check because i'm still
struggling to boot that box right now... :/

Note that the system information below is probably outdated as I am
filing this bug from my laptop, which is also following wheezy, but
lagging behind (and so doesn't have this bug).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_CA.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dmsetup depends on:
ii  libc6               2.13-37
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1  2:1.02.74-4
ii  libudev0            175-7
ii  util-linux          2.20.1-5.3

dmsetup recommends no packages.

dmsetup suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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