HAL and LUKS II: revenge of cryptsetup

[Sam Morris]

I'm trying to track down the reason why I haven't been able to mount 
encrypted volumes on my Debian system for a couple of months. I 
eventually found "HAL + LUKS" at <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/
hal/2007-October/009716.html>, which seemed to describe what I was seeing.

I eagerly applied the attached patch, only to find that it had already 
been committed a few weeks ago... so why is the workaround not working? 
Adding some more debugging code, I got:

Apr 20 01:26:51 xerces hald[28904]: 01:26:51.013 [I] osspec.c:238: Not 
doing workaround; hotplug_event->sysfs.device_file == '/dev/dm-2'

So I guess it never really worked, or maybe the DEVNAME in the hotplug 
event that HAL recives used to start with "/dev/mapper/temporary-
cryptsetup-" but does no longer.

So, another workaround is needed. The HAL commit mentions that the 
workaround is only a temporary one, and that the real fix needs to be 
made to udev. It also says that such a fix has been committed--can anyone 
point me to it so that I can get it included in Debian's udev packages? I 
tried to dig it out of the udev git repository, but the commit messages 
are... terse. :)

BTW, I actually filed a bug about this when I started to try and solve 
it, at <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15285> but never got 
a reply. Do many of you use the bugzilla there, or is there another bug 
tracking system, or do you mostly just use this mailing list?

-- 
Sam Morris
http://robots.org.uk/
 
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