[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#541835: Bug#541835: crypto configuration / dependencies broken

[Jonas Meurer]

On 25/08/2009 Celejar wrote:
> I'm having a pretty bizarre problem with my kernel crypto
> configuration.  I need support for a bog standard LUKS (aes /
> cbc-essiv:sha256) / cryptsetup installation, but even after I enable
> virtually everything in the crypto section of the kernel configs, cbc
> fails to load.  All the relevant modules are exist (dm-mod, dm-crypt,
> crypto_blkcipher, crypto_algapi, crypto_hash, aes_generic,
> sha256_generic), but even after modprobing / insmoding
> everything, /proc/crypto shows that aes and sha is there, but not cbc.
> 
> The problem has been reproduced (using my kernel config) by Jonas
> Meurer, the Debian cryptsetup maintainer, so it's not just me ;).
> We've tried numerous different kernel versions in the .30 / .31 range.

i just built linux 2.6.29 kernel with your kernel config and it fails
the same way. so this problem is not limited to linux kernel 2.6.30+.

greetings,
 jonas