Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 14:55 -0500, Timothy D. Morgan wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 3.2.51-1 > Severity: important > > > Dear Maintainer, > > I'm trying to use cryptsetup to create a loopback encrypted disk volume. Here's approximately what I did: [...] > And here the format hangs while writing the inode tables. sometimes > after 2-3 minutes it finally finishes. Other times my system locks up > completely. Nothing in dmesg. Eventually my SSH session drops. > Console of VM unresponsive. Note that running mkfs.ext3 on the raw > file without mapping it works just fine. [...] Is this a regression, i.e. have you been able to do the same thing using an earlier kernel version? If so, could you try bisecting to find out when this stopped working? You can older packages at <http://snapshot.debian.org/package/linux/> and <http://snapshot.debian.org/package/linux-2.6/>. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Donald Knuth
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