[vox-tech] Et tu, Debian

[Richard Harke]

Thanks a lot! That did it. I guess it proves the only thing you can believe
in an
error message is that there is an error.

Richard


On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Eric Lin <notapplicable.haha at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 08:03:53PM -0800, Richard Harke wrote:
> > Recent news that some MS users are locked out of their files by a screw
> up
> > at MSN.
> > Well, Debian has me locked out of some files. I have some data in an
> > encrypted
> > file system and I use loopback and cryptsetup to get to it. I very
> recently
> > installed
> > lenny for amd64, then today after I installed cryptsetup I found it would
> > not run.
> > Error message:
> > Command failed: Incompatible libdevmapper 1.02.27 (2008-06-25)(compat)
> and
> > kernel driver
>
> This could be due to not running cryptsetup as root, which I'm assuming
> you're doing, not having certain kernel modules loaded (aes, dm_mod, and
> dm-crypt), or not having the right version of libdevmapper.
>
> Let's start with the simplest solution and try to load the right
> modules.  This seems to have solved it for many people with the same
> issue:
>
> modprobe aes dm-crypt dm_mod
>
> Run it as root, and hopefully the problem's solved.
>
> > There is only one version of libdevmapper on the debian site for stable,
> > testing and unstable.
> > There is a different verion of cryptsetup for testing (I'm running
> stable)
> > but it won't install
> > due to other conflicts. Despite the version in the error message, ldd
> shows
> > that
> > cryptsetup is looking for libdevmapper.so.1.02.1
> > The debian site gives 1.02.1 as the version of the package but says the
> > library is at
> > version 1.02.27
> >
> > Can anyone make sense of this?
> >
> > Richard harke
>
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> -Eric
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