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From: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>, dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] unknown version
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 10:45:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <571B3640.3020808@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160422140149.37e9ba4f@raxacoricophallapatorius>

On 04/22/2016 02:01 PM, Julien Lepiller wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to use cryptsetup with a disk that has been encrypted some
> time ago. I'm using Linux From Scratch, and built cryptsetup myself.
> What I see when I run luksOpen is the following (all commands are run
> as root) :
> 
> # cryptsetup 1.7.1 processing "cryptsetup --debug luksOpen /dev/sda1
> hdd"
...
> # Activating volume hdd [keyslot -1] using [none] passphrase.
> # dm version   OF   [16384] (*1)
> # device-mapper: version ioctl on  failed: Permission denied

This looks like you cannot access something (/dev/mapper/control?)
and then it just fails because of this initial failure.

Do you have SElinux switched on?

What is output of "dmsetup version" - does it work?

Milan

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-23  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-22 12:01 [dm-crypt] unknown version Julien Lepiller
2016-04-23  8:45 ` Milan Broz [this message]
2016-04-23 13:17   ` Julien Lepiller
2016-04-23 16:51     ` Milan Broz
2016-04-23 19:22       ` Julien Lepiller

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