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PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 6:50 pm    Post subject: [SOLVED] Cannot initialize device-mapper. Reply with quote

I have updated my Gentoo installation for the first time after several months, and now I cannot read my encrypted Raid array any more.

When I am trying to access the Raid array with

Code:

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/md1 raid


I am getting the following error message:

Code:

Cannot initialize device-mapper. Is dm_mod kernel module loaded?


I have tried to downgrade the version of cryptsetup, compiled a new kernel version, downgraded the version of udev, downgraded the version of lvm2,
but nothing was resolving the error. I am getting a little desperate now....

Let me try to provide some more background information:

1) The kernel configuration has not changed, and it was working previously with the kernel that is used.
In particular, device mapper is compiled into the kernel and available.
In /proc/misc, there is an entry "236 device-mapper".

2) The node /dev/md1 is visible.

3) The problem is with the device mapper itself.
Commands such as

Code:

cryptsetup luksDump -v /dev/md1


are successful.

4) dmraid is not installed. Maybe this has been uninstalled with the update?
However, after an emerge of dmraid, the problem persists.

5)
Code:
 dmsetup targets
returns

Code:

crypt            v1.12.1
striped          v1.5.1
linear           v1.2.1
error            v1.1.0


6) device mapper from lvm2 is started:

Code:

# /etc/init.d/device-mapper status
 * status: started
# /etc/init.d/dmeventd status
 * status: started


Do you have any idea what I could do?
Maybe I could compile a new kernel with a device mapper module dm_mod and load that module.
But I am a little hesitant to do so because I think that this is not the problem, the
device mapper compiled into the kernel was working previously.


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PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rainer06 ...

somewhat of a guess really, but did you perhaps also update udev during this update?

>=udev-197 had a soname change, so perhaps your cryptsetup is linked to an older library:

Code:
# ldd /sbin/cryptsetup
   linux-gate.so.1 (0xb775c000)
   libcryptsetup.so.4 => /usr/lib/libcryptsetup.so.4 (0xb7730000)
   libpopt.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0 (0xb7724000)
   libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb759b000)
   libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0xb7595000)
   libdevmapper.so.1.02 => /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02 (0xb7556000)
   libgcrypt.so.11 => /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.11 (0xb74db000)
   /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb775d000)
   libudev.so.1 => /lib/libudev.so.1 (0xb749e000)
   libgpg-error.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgpg-error.so.0 (0xb7499000)
   librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xb7490000)
   libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7475000)

A 'revdep-rebuild' should fix this ... and any other packages linked to a libudev.so.{N}.

best ... khay
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Khay,

Thank you for the suggestion.
I have run revdep-rebuild before,
and I have emerged cryptsetup newly.
But that did not solve the problem.

Regards,
Rainer
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 11:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have now compiled the kernel with device mapper as a module.

Code:

modprobe dm_mod


and subsequent

Code:

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/md1 raid


yields the same error though.
Code:

Cannot initialize device-mapper. Is dm_mod kernel module loaded?


I have no more idea what else I could do to resolve the issue.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 11:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Newer cryptsetup has wider encryption keys by default. Current~unstable cryptsetup needs a hint to decrypt with older kind of key. Lazily I stabled this ebuild with package.accept_keywords.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 11:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Problem: =dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.5.2

Solution:
Code:
USE="-caps" emerge -av libgcrypt
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 11:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, but we are just wild guessing, because we know nothing about Rainers system :(
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 12:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

@ulenrich
Maybe u r doing "wild guessing", I do not.
If u don't know the problem and not have a "not confusing answer" to rainer06, then don't post anything in first place;-).
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 5:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you very much!
Code:

USE="-caps" emerge -av libgcrypt

is resolving the problem!

There should be a big warning about this for everybody updating libgcrypt.
I just checked the emerge logs, but there is no info about this.
Please add this information for the benefit of everybody else
using encryption.
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