Bug#775988: kpartx: Incompatible libdevmapper $GARBAGE and kernel driver

[Jakub Wilk]

Package: kpartx
Version: 0.5.0-5
Severity: minor

I tried to run kpartx as a normal user. Unsurprisingly, this failed, but 
the error message contained some garbage:

$ /sbin/kpartx -l /dev/zero
/dev/mapper/control: open failed: Permission denied
Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
Incompatible libdevmapper đÄG÷
 and kernel driver
last_lba(): I don't know how to handle files with mode 21b6
llseek error
llseek error
llseek error
llseek error


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages kpartx depends on:
ii  dmsetup             2:1.02.90-2
ii  libc6               2.19-13
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1  2:1.02.90-2
ii  udev                215-10

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Jakub Wilk