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Re: cryptsetup failing on boot with 3.4.x kernels



On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 08:28:10AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have my rootfs on lvm on top of a luks (cryptsetup) encrypted volume.
> System has been working fine since installation with stock Debian, as
> well as self-built kernels (2.6.x - 3.3.8, grub2), using a ram
> disk (initramfs) with cryptsetup included to unlock the luks volume on
> boot. With recent 3.4.x kernels (stable branch, 3.4.1 / 3.4.2), th
> system fails to unlock the luks volume, reporting:
> 
> cryptsetup: evms_activate not available
> 
> [or something like that - typing from memory]
> 
> Running amd64 stable, with some backports stuff, on a Lenovo Thinkpad
> t61. Any idea what this is?

Are the failing kernels hand built or are they packaged?


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