On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:48:57 +0200 "tv.deb...@googlemail.com" <tv.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 11/06/2012 04:19, Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:25:02 +0100 > > Jon Dowland<j...@debian.org> wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 08:28:10AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I have my rootfs on lvm on top of a luks (cryptsetup) encrypted volume. > >>> System has been working fine since installation with stock Debian, as > >>> well as self-built kernels (2.6.x - 3.3.8, grub2), using a ram > >>> disk (initramfs) with cryptsetup included to unlock the luks volume on > >>> boot. With recent 3.4.x kernels (stable branch, 3.4.1 / 3.4.2), th > >>> system fails to unlock the luks volume, reporting: > >>> > >>> cryptsetup: evms_activate not available > >>> > >>> [or something like that - typing from memory] > >>> > >>> Running amd64 stable, with some backports stuff, on a Lenovo Thinkpad > >>> t61. Any idea what this is? > >> > >> Are the failing kernels hand built or are they packaged? > > > > Hand built from vanilla upstream sources. > > > > Celejar Thanks. > Hi, I run LUKS on top of raid (mdadm) on some systems and lvm on LUKS on > others, with locally compiled 3.4.x on testing (amd64), so it's probably > not something related to 3.4 kernels proper, maybe the problem is stable > + 3.4, but more likely the kernel or initramfs-tools config. What > mechanism do you use to unlock the luks container (passphrase, > key-file...) ? Passphrase. > Did you try to rebuild initramfs in verbose mode, or unpack it to check > that needed modules are indeed there ? I've unpacked and compared with a known good one, and could find no differences, but I may have missed something. > Did you grep your kernel config for needed modules and compare output > with a config known to work ? I compared the config with one of my earlier known good ones, and couldn't find anything that looked significant, but I certainly could have missed something. > Maybe going through 3.4 kernel main changes [1] can ring a bell, I don't > remember anything specific to this but maybe I already forgot. > > [1] http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Don't see anything, but I'm no expert. Thanks, Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120612152033.7a94eece.cele...@gmail.com
