[Bug 663053] [NEW] encrypted block devices unavailable with linux-virtual

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Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: linux-virtual

I set up full disk encryption, minus /boot, with debian-installer from
maverick mini.iso (dm-crypt/luks). Boots fine with -generic kernel, but
although I use it as a desktop (install ubuntu-desktop), as it is a
virtual machine in virtualbox, I would normally replace the -generic
kernel with the -virtual flavor. When attempting to boot the -virtual
kernel, I get the following errors when Plymouth should be asking for
the cryptsetup passphrase:

cryptsetup: evms_activate is not available
0b6) does not begin with /dev/mapper

I don't use EVMS, so /sbin/evms_activate is not present on my installed
system or in the initrd.img for -generic, but that doesn't stop the
-generic kernel from booting up. I tried the fixes in Bug #106097 (mod
to /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot and creating
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/evms, then rebuilding the initrd.img
for -virtual) to no avail.

Same problem after upgrading the maverick installation to natty.

$ apt-cache policy linux-generic 
linux-generic:
  Installed: 2.6.36.0.1
  Candidate: 2.6.36.0.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.36.0.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.6.35.22.23 0
        400 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages

$ lsb_release -dr
Description:    Ubuntu natty (development branch)
Release:        11.04

** Affects: cryptsetup
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: linux-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Also affects: cryptsetup
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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encrypted block devices unavailable with linux-virtual
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