Bug#775988: kpartx: Incompatible libdevmapper $GARBAGE and kernel driver

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On 01/22/2015 05:52 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
>
> I tried to run kpartx as a normal user. Unsurprisingly, this failed,
> but the error message contained some garbage:
>
> $ /sbin/kpartx -l /dev/zero
> /dev/mapper/control: open failed: Permission denied
> Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
> Incompatible libdevmapper đÄG÷
 and kernel driver
> last_lba(): I don't know how to handle files with mode 21b6
> llseek error
> llseek error
> llseek error
> llseek error 
rrs@learner:~$ kpartx -l
/dev/mapper/control: open failed: Permission denied
Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
Incompatible libdevmapper � and kernel driver
usage : kpartx [-a|-d|-l] [-f] [-v] wholedisk
        -a add partition devmappings
        -r devmappings will be readonly
        -d del partition devmappings
        -u update partition devmappings
        -l list partitions devmappings that would be added by -a
        -p set device name-partition number delimiter
        -g force GUID partition table (GPT)
        -f force devmap create
        -v verbose
        -s sync mode. Don't return until the partitions are created


kpartx expects a block device as an argument.

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Ritesh Raj Sarraf
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