[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#585378: cryptsetup: segfaults on boot (on powerpc)

[Milan Broz]

On 06/10/2010 12:43 AM, Mourad De Clerck wrote:
> cryptsetup asks the password for the root (luks) partition and proceeds to
> segfault. After which it asks the password again. Critical because it made
> this laptop unbootable. I repaired it with another powerpc laptop, "target
> mode" and chroot. It's a bit tricky to figure out what's going on this early
> in the boot, and I'm a bit loath to upgrade to the current version of
> cryptsetup again. However, if I can help in any way, let me know.

Please can you try to run cryptsetup manually with --debug and post output?

(BTW There is patch for topology ioctl upstream which affects ppc arch,
but this code should not be called during luksOpen...)

Milan