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davidlondon
Oct 13th 2007, 03:16 PM
Hi all,

Just upgraded to gutsy gibbon rc and I have the processor running at 75% because of this error:

ioctl:error adding target to table
device-mapper:table:254-2:linear:dm-linear:device lookup failed

it is polling /dev/scd1 which was /dev/sdc0 under feisty every few seconds. Gutsy will not be useable with this problem.

Cheers.


Found a temp solution do: sudo killall udevd if you get this problem

This appears to be a serious bug in evms package that affects laptops by the looks of it. A temp fix after booting is to do the above 'sudo killall udevd' or remove the evms package. Some users report that removing evms only leads to it being reinstalled again when a batch of upgrades are available.

SheeEttin
Oct 13th 2007, 03:42 PM
"sudo ln -s /dev/sdc0 /dev/scd1" will make it work, but I'm sure something won't be happy about it... You may want to investigate your fstab.

By the way, any guess as to why it changed? If your hardware didn't change, the device nodes shouldn't change either...