From: stn21 <stn21@...>
Subject: cryptsetup hangs on SuSE 10.1
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt
Date: 2006-05-29 16:36:21 GMT (3 years, 5 weeks, 1 day, 12 hours and 55 minutes ago)

Hi,

please excuse just in case this has been discussed before. I have just
signed up 

cryptsetup 1.0.3 works fine on SuSE 10.0 (Eval) but on SuSE 10.1 it
hangs for no apparent reason.

I have tested this on 2 different PCs with SuSE  10.1.

What I wanted to do is mount a loopback-volume:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=~/.secret bs=1M count=4
losetup /dev/loop5 ~/.secret
cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/loop5
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/loop5 ~/.secret

Sometimes luksFormat hangs and sometimes luksOpen hangs. In either case
the processes cannot be interrupted nor ended with kill or kill -9.

Please give me a hint on where to look for the cause.

Thanks, Stefan