Bug#801630: /sbin/mke2fs: mkfs fails on cryptosetup usb drive

2015-10-15 Thread Greg Schmidt
I can't reproduce the problem. The sequence of comands that failed repeatedly are are now working as I expect. The cheap'o thumdrive is indeed slow. mkfs took just under 15min and didn't generate the journal entry. The device busy message from cryptsetup is gone. Between the bugreport and re-t

Bug#801630: /sbin/mke2fs: mkfs fails on cryptosetup usb drive

2015-10-13 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Why do you think this is a e2fsprogs bug? You didn't say what kind of usb drive this was, but if it was a USB thumb drive, the 120 second stall was probably because USB thumb drives was slow. Also, mke2fs must have completed if the shell script had gotten to the "cryptsetup close prn" command.

Bug#801630: /sbin/mke2fs: mkfs fails on cryptosetup usb drive

2015-10-12 Thread greg
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.42.13-1 Severity: normal File: /sbin/mke2fs While attempting to setup encrypted thumb drive saw the following weirdness: shell code fragment dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdi bs=4096 count=10 cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdi cryptsetup open /dev/sdi prn mkfs