[01:22] <trapicki> good evening!
[01:24] <trapicki> I've a problem with an external USB harddisk, a WD Elements 2GB. The only partition has its last sector beyond the last sector reported by the kernel for the disk.
[01:25] <trapicki> Any ideas how I find the missing bits to get disk size and partition size matching?
[02:02] <anon^_^> Hi, I'm running into a small issue with Kernel 2.6.32-27.49 and dmcrypt
[02:04] <anon^_^> when using Truecrypt 7.0a to create an encrypted partition the length of the device, I'm receiving an error, "device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: invalid argument command failed"
[02:07] <anon^_^> I haven't had issues with Truecrypt making use of dm-crypt/cryptsetup in the past even on the same distribution in the past (Ubuntu 10.04)
[02:32] <anon^_^> presume I caught channel sleeping
[02:32] <anon^_^> a little mor information, I was able to create volumes in truecrypt as late as last week before the recent kernel update pushed into Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
[02:33] <anon^_^> so this regression appears to be a result of the kernel update
[02:35] <trapicki> Some more: My problem is _exactly_ the same as http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1603349.html, see comments shayno90 October 28th, 2010, 07:58 PM and srs5694 October 28th, 2010, 11:39 PM
[02:36] <trapicki> fdisk -l output for the 2TB-drive is identical
[03:21] <anon^_^> small update, kern log listed the following error after two attempts to encrypt partitioned device
[03:23] <anon^_^> http://pastebin.com/Am9YR9QC
[08:29] <anon^_^> problem solved, sorry for disturbing chan
[08:31] <anon^_^> prior disk was not removed correctly from OS prior to hotswap and insertion of new HDD. This appears to have caused the issue with cryptsetup
[14:38] <lag> Is anyone alive? 
[14:40] <lag> Anyone out there?
[14:41] <LetoThe2nd> no.
[14:51] <lag> LetoThe2nd: Seemingly 
[14:52] <LetoThe2nd> lag: its the same as always... have a look at the topic, especially the last sentence :-)
[14:53] <lag> LetoThe2nd: Na, it's okay - I'll just grab them when they return
[15:06] <Quintasan> Can someone take a look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/694825 ? It's driving me mad, my installation crashes almost right after booting
[15:06] <ubot2> Launchpad bug 694825 in linux (Ubuntu) "ata_bmdma crashing at random(?) (affects: 1) (heat: 6)" [Undecided,New]
[17:02] <ogra> grmbl
[20:14] <ogra> godamned !
[20:14]  * ogra starts to hate the ubuntu kernels with passion
[20:41] <afunix_> hello
[20:42] <afunix_> can anybody help me with kernel crashes?
[20:42] <crimsun> afunix_: have you read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Debugging ?
[20:43] <afunix_> yes. i have strange symptoms
[20:44] <afunix_> mainline kernel (2.6.37) is crashing (kernel panic: bounce buffer is not DMA'ble from swiotlb)
[20:44] <afunix_> ubuntu maverick last kernel has random hangs
[20:45] <afunix_> crashes have appeared after I've upgraded my laptop memory up to 4Gb (x86_64 arch)
[20:46] <afunix_> I've run memtest. I've run BIOS built-in hardware tests. Those tools report no errors
[20:47] <Quintasan> afunix_: could I see your dmesg? I was wonder if you could have ran into the same issue as me
[20:47] <afunix_> i've googled "kernel panic: bounce buffer is not DMA'ble" and found such errors were 2007-2008 in redhat kernels
[20:48] <afunix_> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6312269/dmesg.txt
[20:48] <Quintasan> afunix_: uh, that is from a mainline kernel?
[20:49] <afunix_> that is current ubuntu
[20:49] <Quintasan> oh I see
[20:49] <afunix_> i cannot boot mainline
[20:49] <Quintasan> afunix_: you get random hang with maverick ones?
[20:49] <afunix_> yes
[20:50] <afunix_> 2.6.35-24-generic x86_64
[20:51] <Quintasan> afunix_: You'd better file a bug report, I was trying to grab attention here for at least two days but without success, bugs at launchpad may get adressed faster
[20:51] <afunix_> sometimes there are just hags, sometimes I can see blinking caps+scroll lock. sometimes (when I'm in console) I can see a lot of "oops" messages
[20:51] <afunix_> well, I'm not sure if it is a memory problem or some real kernel bug
[20:52] <Quintasan> did you try booting without the additional RAM?
[20:53] <afunix_> yes. When I'm booting with 2Gb it works fine. But when there is 4Gb it hangs.
[20:53] <afunix_> but two different memtesting tools says that everything is fine
[20:54] <afunix_> I've got such line in dmesg: "Memory: 4041352k/4456448k available (5711k kernel code, 264216k absent, 150880k reserved, 5379k data, 908k init)"
[20:54] <Quintasan> well, I would open a bug in your case, they will just close it if it's your memory's fault in the end
[20:54] <afunix_> BIOS reports 256Mb of RAM as absent. So, maybe there is some errors in the way kernel detects and occupies memory
[20:56] <afunix_> hmmm. I'll try, but I think that bug report can stay unresolved forever...