Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 181621
Cryptsetup create: Command failed: Invalid argument
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:58:14 EDT
Description of problem: The attempt to create a crypted device mapping via cryptsetup fails with an unclear errormessage Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC5T2 versions and newest rawhide... cryptsetup-luks-1.0.1-4.2.1 device-mapper-1.02.02-3.2 kernel-2.6.15-1.1948_FC5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Following the steps in several howtos: 1.[root@scorp opt]# dd if=/dev/zero of=dmcrypttest bs=1024 count=10000 2.[root@scorp opt]# losetup /dev/loop0 dmcrypttest 3.[root@scorp opt]# cryptsetup create crypt1 /dev/loop0 Actual results: Command failed: Invalid argument Expected results: Crypted dm mapping with name crypt1 created Additional info: Same results if I manually load dm-crypt and aes modules, create partitions, try it on a lvm logical volume, specify crypto algorithm...
These bugs are being closed since a large number of updates have been released after the FC5 test1 and test2 releases. Kindly update your system by running yum update as root user or try out the third and final test version of FC5 being released in a short while and verify if the bugs are still present on the system .Reopen or file new bug reports as appropriate after confirming the presence of this issue. Thanks
This is probably a duplicate of #176726.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176726 ***