Description of problem: Loop devices are no longer precreated. So that mounting using loop devices will fail unless you run modprobe loop first. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): util-linux-2.23.2-1.fc20.i686 Steps to Reproduce: [root@bruno bruno]# mount -o loop Fedora-Live-XFCE-i686-19-1.iso /mnt mount: /home/bruno/Fedora-Live-XFCE-i686-19-1.iso: failed to setup loop device: No such file or directory [root@bruno bruno]# modprobe loop [root@bruno bruno]# mount -o loop Fedora-Live-XFCE-i686-19-1.iso /mnt [root@bruno bruno]#
This is working again in rawhide. My guess is that there was a kernel issue as there had been a change affecting this that was made recently. I ay have seen it later than some people because there is a dracut issue affecting booting and I needed to revert dracut to boot with recent kernels.