Another update. I've investigated further and this problem appears to have been introduced to my systems when the kpartx package was updated on Feb 26th:
2011-02-26 15:58:49 install kpartx <none> 0.4.8+git0.761c66f-9 I'll follow up the issue with the kpartx maintainer. Regards, -- Eoin McHugh ICHEC Systems Team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org