On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 04:36:59AM -0700, Colin Williams wrote: > I'm running bullseye / debian 11.0 testing. I have been running a > script that is supposed to write a filesystem image (for chromiumOS). > In short I'm getting the following > > losetup: cannot find an unused loop device > partx: stat of failed: No such file or directory > partx: stat of failed: No such file or directory Could you please do a quick sudo losetup -a and perhaps ls /dev/loop* and tell us the result? > Looking up the error someone mentioned that the kernel needed to be > configured to support loopback devices [...] It would be an exotic kernel lacking that. Perhaps they are all used? > Better yet, does anyone know how to solve my problem with the script > or losetup? Could this be an issue building from a chroot environment > with a different kernel version? Or building the image from a btrfs > filesystem? First let's try to understand what is going on. Perhaps some uncivilised script has left around busy but unused loop devices. Cheers - t
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