[Bug 605436] Re: kpartx fails to map partitions (device-mapper: resume ioctl failed: Invalid argument)

[Serge Hallyn]

The patch listed in comment #2 is applied in precise and quantal, so the
bug should be fixed.  (The sample .img file in the description is also
no longer available.)

Marking this 'fix released'.  Please feel free to re-open if you can
reproduce this bug.

** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu Quantal)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu Precise)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  kpartx fails to map partitions (device-mapper: resume ioctl failed:
  Invalid argument)

Status in “multipath-tools” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “multipath-tools” source package in Precise:
  Fix Released
Status in “multipath-tools” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Released
Status in “multipath-tools” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: multipath-tools

  Under certain conditions kpartx fails to map partitions.  You can try
  it with the image available here
  <http://m0n0.ch/wall/download.php?file=generic-pc-1.32.img>:

  ----8<----
  root at Otherland:~/Work/m0n0# mv generic-pc-1.32.img generic-pc-1.32.img.gz
  root at Otherland:~/Work/m0n0# gunzip generic-pc-1.32.img.gz

  gzip: generic-pc-1.32.img.gz: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
  root at Otherland:~/Work/m0n0# sfdisk -l generic-pc-1.32.img
  Disk generic-pc-1.32.img: cannot get geometry

  Disk generic-pc-1.32.img: 1 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
  Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

     Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
  generic-pc-1.32.img1          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
  generic-pc-1.32.img2          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
  generic-pc-1.32.img3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
  generic-pc-1.32.img4   *      0       3-      4-     25000   a5  FreeBSD
                  end: (c,h,s) expected (3,28,41) found (1023,254,63)
  generic-pc-1.32.img5          0+      1-      2-     10232
  root at Otherland:~/Work/m0n0# kpartx -v -a generic-pc-1.32.img
  device-mapper: resume ioctl failed: Invalid argument
  add map loop0p4 (0:0): 0 50000 linear /dev/loop0 0
  ----8<----

  dmesg says:
  device-mapper: table: 252:9: loop0 too small for target: start=0, len=50000, dev_size=20480

  It seems like this is debian bug 586104 and fixed in newer versions of
  multipath-tools.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: kpartx 0.4.8-14ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Jul 14 16:06:53 2010
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: multipath-tools

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