[Bug 1079769] Re: cryptsetup attempts to get cannonical name of devices that have none

[Steve Langasek]

** Information type changed from Public Security to Public

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #66351671056
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=66351671056

** Also affects: cryptsetup (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=66351671056
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #671056
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=671056

** Changed in: cryptsetup (Debian)
 Remote watch: Debian Bug tracker #66351671056 => Debian Bug tracker #671056

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Title:
  cryptsetup attempts to get cannonical name of devices that have none

Status in “cryptsetup” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “cryptsetup” package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  In particuar, when cryptsetup tries to get the cannonical name of a
  swap partition, and fails.

  NOTE: This error is not only a problem wiith ubuntu:
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=671056

  ocurred on: upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 with:

  cryptsetup:
    Installed: 2:1.4.3-2ubuntu1
    Candidate: 2:1.4.3-2ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 2:1.4.3-2ubuntu1 0
          500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  This error will occur every time  a program of the user calls update-
  initramfs, which in turn calls cryptsetup

  Technical error: 
  cryptsetup: WARNING: Failed to get cannonical name of /dev/sda#
  (Where # is partition number)

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