On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 03:10:45PM +0200, Ruediger Meier wrote: > Hi, > > When having a kernel without loop device support > $ losetup -f > returns 0 and no warning on stderr The return code is mistake, but there is: warn(_("cannot find an unused loop device")); in the code. Please, try # LOOPDEV_DEBUG=yes losetup -f or (and) strace would be also nice. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html