Re: cryptsetup: Problem with password-prompt when re-mapping encrypted partition

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On Friday 13 June 2008 11:20, Jonas wrote:
> Hey Dominik,

Hi Jonas,

thank you for your fast response!

> > using cryptsetup (version 1.0.5 on Gentoo) I noticed following strange behaviour:
> > 
> > After a successful mapping the partition I unmap it again. When I 
> > try to remap it, sometimes the password prompt doesn't accept the 
> > passphrase I entered before or accepts it finally after some tries.
> > 
> > Anyone noticed a similar behaviour? (BTW: My keyboard is working fine ;-) )
> 
> Could you try whether this happens with cryptsetup 1.0.6 as well? 1.0.6
> has some code added which invokes udevsettle before actually doing the
> device setup.
> the reason for that is that after a dm-crypt device is closed, sometimes
> temporary device-mapper tables are left behind. you should see them as
> temporary-cryptsetup-* devices in /dev/mapper.
> 
> please see http://bugs.debian.org/444914 for more information.

Yes, thats it. I tested cryptsetup-1.0.6 which seems to fix/workaround this bug. Everything works 
fine again, thanks! 

Regards,
Dominik

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