From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: # dd if=/dev/zero of=encrypted.img bs=1k count=10000 10000+0 records in 10000+0 records out # ls -laF total 10024 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Nov 25 12:25 ./ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Nov 25 12:25 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10240000 Nov 25 12:25 encrypted.img # losetup -e des /dev/loop0 /opt/secure/encrypted.img Password: Init (up to 16 hex digits): ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid argument Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a file (for loopback setup) 2. attempt to setup encryption on that file for loopback device Actual Results: ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid argument Expected Results: losetup should not have had a problem. Additional info:
Elliot (and public) - any progress in determining whether it is an isolated issue? I've been able to duplicate this on two different Red Hat Linux 8.0 boxes.
Sorry for the delay. Please read bug #56698 for the (stalled) status of a fix. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56698 ***