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Description of problem:
Since my last yum system upgrade, cryptsetup does not work to either open (luksOpen) or format (luksFormat) filesystems (on files via loopback). The command exits with no error messages. The The files themselves are intact as I can open them on an i386 FC6 laptop that I have not patched yet. I can also open them on the affected machine using the pre-compiled AMD64 cryptsetup binary at http://luks.endorphin.org/dm-crypt. The latter is a static binary built for a 2.4 kernel. /sbin/cryptsetup appears to be a statically linked binary, so I don't see how it could be broken. Here are the packages that were changed during the last upgrade:

Oct 08 23:04:47 Updated: kdelibs.i386 3.5.7-1.fc6
Oct 08 23:05:02 Updated: kdelibs.x86_64 3.5.7-1.fc6
Oct 08 23:05:30 Updated: kdebase.x86_64 3.5.7-1.fc6
Oct 08 23:05:43 Updated: kdebase.i386 3.5.7-1.fc6
Oct 08 23:05:44 Updated: perl-Net-DNS.x86_64 0.61-1.fc6
Oct 08 23:05:46 Updated: selinux-policy.noarch 2.4.6-94.fc6
Oct 08 23:05:48 Updated: postgresql-libs.i386 8.1.10-1.fc6
Oct 08 23:05:49 Updated: postgresql-libs.x86_64 8.1.10-1.fc6
Oct 08 23:05:52 Updated: tzdata.noarch 2007h-1.fc6
Oct 08 23:06:06 Installed: kernel-devel.x86_64 2.6.22.9-61.fc6
Oct 08 23:06:09 Updated: kernel-headers.x86_64 2.6.22.9-61.fc6
Oct 08 23:06:28 Installed: kernel.x86_64 2.6.22.9-61.fc6
Oct 08 23:06:30 Updated: elinks.x86_64 0.11.3-1.fc6
Oct 08 23:06:40 Updated: selinux-policy-targeted.noarch 2.4.6-94.fc6

The kernel upgrade also forced me to rebuild my NVidia graphics drivers.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cryptsetup-luks-1.0.3-2.3.fc6 kernel-2.6.22.9-61.fc6

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a luks encrypted file system on a file (this step fails if bug exists at "cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/loopN name"). If you have a pre-existing file you can try script below to try to open it. 
2. use the script supplied below to mount it. (argument is path to file to be mounted)
3. Script detects that nothing created under /dev/mapper and removes loopback.

Actual Results:
sudo ~/bin/copen2 ./encryptedfs
Password:
/dev/mapper/encryptedfs does not exist removing loopback.


Expected Results:
sudo ~/bin/copen ./encryptedfs
Password:
Enter LUKS passphrase: 
key slot 0 unlocked.
Command successful.


Additional info:
#!/bin/sh
pathto=$1
base=`basename $pathto`
loop=`/sbin/losetup -f`
/sbin/losetup $loop  $pathto
/sbin/cryptsetup -v luksOpen $loop $base
if [ -e /dev/mapper/$base ]; then
  mkdir /mnt/$base
  mount /dev/mapper/$base /mnt/$base
else
  echo /dev/mapper/$base does not exist removing loopback.
  /sbin/losetup -d $loop
fi