From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:11:38 +0000 Subject: udev problem with udevsettle Message-Id: <486CD00A.3040800@lfarkas.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org hi, i've got a problem which i report in: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?idD9955 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?idE1241 it's seems there is a deadlock between udev and cryptsetup. it happend since cryptsetup 1.0.6 (which is the latest version) since this patch was added to it http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt/2249/match=udevsettle so now cryptsetup call udevsettle and as i call "cryptsetup luksOpen" from udev it seems there are some kind of deadlock. here is my thread on dm-crypt list: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt/2747 but it seems nobody able to solve the problem and nobody really understand the problem. imho it'd have to work as it's worked earlier. that's why i wrote to here may be you can solve it or can tell us how can we solve this problem even in cryptsetup or in udev or in udevsettle (anyway there is not any kind of docs about udevsettle). thank you for you help in advance. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"