Tobias Walkowiak wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 05:54:39PM +0300, Jari Ruusu wrote: > > It should output "swapon: unable to open loop device %s". > > If it doesn't output that, then you are running wrong swapon program. > > but it _does_ output that. i'm using the loop-aes-utils package on debian > which has version 2.12p-8 You have correct swapon program in there, good. > the only error message is 'activating swap ... failed' during boot. even > dmesg doesn't say anything about it. and after booting losetup -a doesn't > show any loop. Max Vozeler wrote: > Indeed, I can reproduce this. I'll investigate and follow up later today. Encrypted swap on stock kernel.org 2.6.13 works ok here, no udev. # grep /dev/hda3 /etc/fstab /dev/hda3 none swap sw,loop=/dev/loop6,encryption=AES128 0 0 # swapon -a -v loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 177012736 bytes swapon on /dev/loop6 Adding 172860k swap on /dev/loop6. Priority:-2 extents:1 # losetup -a /dev/loop6: [0302]:77886 (/dev/hda3) offset=4096 encryption=AES128 multi-key-v3 # cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/loop6 partition 172860 0 -2 # uname -r 2.6.13 Silly check: do you have swap enabled in your kernel config? CONFIG_SWAP=y -- Jari Ruusu 1024R/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9 DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
