I should make it clear that it is the device mapper that is at fault. After first installing the 32-bit xubuntu system, I found that tcplay was unable to open an existing container that I had been using successfully for many months using xubuntu 14.04: it hung at the device mapper stage on 16.04.
The test sequence described here is so that you can reproduce the problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1625822 Title: tcplay hangs at the device mapper stage. This happens in 16.04 LTS version of xubuntu (32 bit and 64 bit) and ubuntu (64bit). This makes tcplay containers not accessible. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tcplay/+bug/1625822/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs