just thought I would add my 2 pence here. I have the same problem but when attempting to luksformat at drive:
# cryptsetup luksFormat --hash=sha512 --cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 --key-size=256 /dev/hda5 WARNING! ======== This will overwrite data on /dev/hda5 irrevocably. Are you sure? (Type uppercase yes): YES Enter LUKS passphrase: Verify passphrase: Rendezvous with udev timed out for 'temporary-cryptsetup-6838'; stat failed: No such file or directory Failed to setup dm-crypt key mapping. Check kernel for support for the aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 cipher spec and verify that /dev/hda5 contains at least 258 sectors. Failed to write to key storage. Command failed. # ls -al /dev/.static/dev/|grep mapper drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-08-14 21:25 mapper strace provides; stat64("/dev/mapper/temporary-cryptsetup-6838", 0xbfdbbe88) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) nanosleep({1, 870000000}, NULL) = 0 stat64("/dev/mapper/temporary-cryptsetup-6838", 0xbfdbbe88) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) nanosleep({1, 880000000}, NULL) = 0 stat64("/dev/mapper/temporary-cryptsetup-6838", 0xbfdbbe88) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) nanosleep({1, 890000000}, NULL) = 0 stat64("/dev/mapper/temporary-cryptsetup-6838", 0xbfdbbe88) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) nanosleep({1, 900000000}, NULL) = 0 stat64("/dev/mapper/temporary-cryptsetup-6838", 0xbfdbbe88) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, "Rendezvous with udev timed out f"..., 102) = 102 write(2, "\n", 1) = 1 stat64("/dev/.static/dev/mapper/temporary-cryptsetup-6838", 0xbfdbbe88) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) umask(0) = 022 mknod("/dev/.static/dev/mapper/temporary-cryptsetup-6838", S_IFBLK|0660, makedev(254, 0)) = 0 umask(022) = 0 chown32("/dev/.static/dev/mapper/temporary-cryptsetup-6838", 0, 6) = 0 stat64("/dev/.static/dev/mapper/temporary-cryptsetup-6838", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(254, 0), ...}) = 0 unlink("/dev/.static/dev/mapper/temporary-cryptsetup-6838") = 0 write(2, "Failed to setup dm-crypt key map"..., 161) = 161 write(2, "Failed to write to key storage.\n", 32) = 32 write(2, "Command failed", 14) = 14 write(2, ".\n", 2) = 2 exit_group(-5) = ? -- cant mount 2nd crypted partition within cryptroot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/105266 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs