When I try creating a mapper device with cryptsetup i get the following error message: # cryptsetup -y create storage /dev/hda3 Enter passphrase: Verify passphrase: Command failed: device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument /var/log/message reports the following: # tail /var/log/messages | grep device-mapper Jan 30 11:30:17 thorium [ 258.715286] device-mapper: table: 254:0: crypt: Error allocating crypto tfm Jan 30 11:30:17 thorium [ 258.715294] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table Jan 30 11:30:17 thorium [ 258.715851] device-mapper: ioctl: device doesn't appear to be in the dev hash table. But if i try again to create the mapper device with cryptosetup, the error message doesn't appear again and everything works well: # cryptsetup -y create storage /dev/hda3 Enter passphrase: Verify passphrase:
Please post your `emerge --info' too.
Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.28-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r1-i686-AMD_Sempron-tm-_2600+-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:25:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.3.7 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext minimal mmx mmxext sse unicode x86" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="*" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Attach the .config to your kernel.
Created attachment 185289 [details] .config
the problem has gone... just reinstalled gentoo with gentoo-sources-2.6.29 and cryptsetup 1.0.6-r2.
I've had the same issue while encrypting a swap partition that was still active unencrypted. As your issue is gone, I'm closing this bug, reopen if necessary.
