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Re: loop-aes: "losetup -F /dev/loop3" failed



On (25/09/06 22:08), David Kolf wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to encrypt the swap and /home partition on my system using
> loop-aes. Encrypting swap with random keys works fine, but the /home
> partition, which should be password protected, is troubling me.
> 
> I followed the instructions from
> http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/loop-AES.README in section 7.2.
> 
> I prepared the keys, filled the partition with random data and modified
> /etc/fstab in the way the instructions told me.
> 
> When I entered "losetup -F /dev/loop3" it asked me for the password but
> then it told me "ioctl: LOOP_MULTI_KEY_SETUP_V3: Invalid argument".
> 
> I used the package loop-aes-source version 2.2d-5 and loop-aes-utils
> 2.12p-4sarge1. My kernel is a custom built 2.6.8 kernel. Running "make
> tests" for the loop-aes module did not report any error.
> 

Does this answer your question?

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=318944

(Found by googling your error message).

James

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