{"id":62,"date":"2007-06-26T20:57:09","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T19:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/2007\/06\/26\/ubuntu-704-cryptsetup-problem\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T20:57:53","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T19:57:53","slug":"ubuntu-704-cryptsetup-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/2007\/06\/26\/ubuntu-704-cryptsetup-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 7.04 cryptsetup problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am using <a href=\"http:\/\/luks.endorphin.org\/dm-crypt\">cryptsetup LUKS<\/a> for storing encrypted office data on my USB memory stick (just in case I lose it). I recently installed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu<\/a> 7.04 on one of my machines and wanted to open the encrypted partition using cryptsetup luksOpen, which failed with a rather strange<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left\"><p>Unable to make device node for &#8216;temporary-cryptsetup-32733&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While searching around the net I found a lot of people asking the same question but hardly any answer, until I finally read <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=420182\">this article<\/a><br \/>\non the Ubuntu forum.<\/p>\n<p>The solution to the whole problem is rather simple:<\/p>\n<blockquote align=\"left\"><p>sudo mkdir \/dev\/.static\/dev\/mapper<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With a little bit more verbose error message of cryptsetup I <em>might<\/em> have figured this out myself&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am using cryptsetup LUKS for storing encrypted office data on my USB memory stick (just in case I lose it). I recently installed Ubuntu 7.04 on one of my machines and wanted to open the encrypted partition using cryptsetup luksOpen, which failed with a rather strange Unable to make device node for &#8216;temporary-cryptsetup-32733&#8217; While &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/2007\/06\/26\/ubuntu-704-cryptsetup-problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ubuntu 7.04 cryptsetup problem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[45,46,48,47],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sysadmin","tag-bug","tag-cryptsetup","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}