Re: Re: problem: loop-aes swap partition isn't mounted

[Max Vozeler <max@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:32:05AM +0200, Tobias Walkowiak wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 04:37:31PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 07:35:36PM +0200, Tobias Walkowiak wrote:
> > > using debian (unstable) with kernel 2.6.13 (vanilla from kernel.org) doesn't
> > > mount the swapspace that should be mounted via
> > > /dev/sda2       none    swap    sw,loop=/dev/loop6,encryption=AES128    0 0
> > > in /etc/fstab.
> > > 
> > > i did compile the loop-aes and loop-aes-ciphers after building the kernel,
> > > of course. is there any known problem with it? it still worked with the
> > > latest official debian 2.6.11 kernel!
> > 
> > How does the failure show itself? Any error messages? Is the loop device
> > setup and shown by losetup -a and is there an entry in /proc/swaps? Is
> > the correct loop module loaded?
> 
> the only error message is 'activating swap ... failed' during boot. even
> dmesg doesn't say anything about it. and after booting losetup -a doesn't
> show any loop.

Indeed, I can reproduce this. I'll investigate and follow up later today.

cheers,
Max

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