I seem to have resolved the issue above after rebooting. Thanks for helping to debug Thomas and everyone.
On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 1:29 PM Colin Williams <colin.williams.seat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Do you have a file > > /dev/loop-control > > ? > > > > What is listed by > > > > ls -ld /dev/loop* > > > > colin@M00974055-VM:~$ sudo ls /dev/loop-control > [sudo] password for colin: > ls: cannot access '/dev/loop-control': No such file or directory > colin@M00974055-VM:~$ sudo ls -ld /dev/loop* > ls: cannot access '/dev/loop*': No such file or directory > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > What happens if you try to create a loop device manually ? > > > > not_yet_existing_file="some_file_path" > dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=2 of="$not_yet_existing_file" > sudo losetup loop0 "$not_yet_existing_file" > > not_yet_existing_file="/tmp/does_not_exist_yet" > dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=2 of="$not_yet_existing_file" > sudo losetup loop0 "$not_yet_existing_file" > 2+0 records in > 2+0 records out > 1024 bytes (1.0 kB, 1.0 KiB) copied, 0.000187826 s, 5.5 MB/s > losetup: /dev/loop0: failed to set up loop device: No such file or directory > > > There should be no messages from losetup. > > But we see one above ^^ > > > sudo wc -c </dev/loop0 > > should yield "1024". > > sudo wc -c </dev/loop0 > bash: /dev/loop0: No such file or directory > > > > To clean up do: > > > losetup -d /dev/loop0 > rm "$not_yet_existing_file" > > > colin@M00974055-VM:~$ sudo losetup -d /dev/loop0 > losetup: /dev/loop0: failed to use device: No such device > colin@M00974055-VM:~$ rm "$not_yet_existing_file" > colin@M00974055-VM:~$ > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > Have a nice day :) > > > > Thomas > > > Thank you Thomas. Thanks again for looking at my issue. Not sure where > to go from here. > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > colin@M00974055-VM:~$ uname -r > 5.10.0-3-amd64 > colin@M00974055-VM:~$ cat /etc/debian_version > 11.0colin@M00974055-VM:~$ lsmod | grep loop > colin@M00974055-VM:~$ sudo modprobe loop > colin@M00974055-VM:~$ lsmod | grep loop > loop 36864 0 > colin@M00974055-VM:~$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=2 > of="$not_yet_existing_file" > 2+0 records in > 2+0 records out > 1024 bytes (1.0 kB, 1.0 KiB) copied, 0.000134838 s, 7.6 MB/s > colin@M00974055-VM:~$ sudo losetup loop0 "$not_yet_existing_file" > > No error here ^^ Guess we needed to load the module? > > colin@M00974055-VM:~$ sudo wc -c </dev/loop0 > bash: /dev/loop0: Permission denied > colin@M00974055-VM:~$ sudo -i > root@M00974055-VM:~# wc -c </dev/loop0 > 1024 > root@M00974055-VM: > > > wc -c </dev/loop0 > 1024 > root@M00974055-VM:~# losetup -d /dev/loop0 > rm "$not_yet_existing_file" > rm: cannot remove '': No such file or directory > > I think we are on to something after loading the module > > _____________________________________________________________ > > I re-ran the script after the module. It looks like it's making more > progress but still getting an eventual error related to loopback > devices: > > http://ix.io/3vi8 > > > ^^ This is probably the most useful to look at moving forward ^^ > > Now I will re-run the inital commands below > > sudo ls -ld /dev/loop* > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 0 Aug 7 13:07 /dev/loop0 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 12 Aug 7 13:07 /dev/loop0p1 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 21 Aug 7 13:07 /dev/loop0p10 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 22 Aug 7 13:07 /dev/loop0p11 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 23 Aug 7 13:07 /dev/loop0p12 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 13 Aug 7 13:07 /dev/loop0p2 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 14 Aug 7 13:07 /dev/loop0p3 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 15 Aug 7 13:07 /dev/loop0p4 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 16 Aug 7 13:07 /dev/loop0p5 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 17 Aug 7 13:07 /dev/loop0p6 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 18 Aug 7 13:07 /dev/loop0p7 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 19 Aug 7 13:07 /dev/loop0p8 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 20 Aug 7 13:07 /dev/loop0p9 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 1 Aug 7 13:01 /dev/loop1 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 0 Aug 7 13:01 /dev/loop1p1 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 9 Aug 7 13:01 /dev/loop1p10 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 10 Aug 7 13:01 /dev/loop1p11 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 11 Aug 7 13:01 /dev/loop1p12 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 1 Aug 7 13:01 /dev/loop1p2 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 2 Aug 7 13:01 /dev/loop1p3 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 3 Aug 7 13:01 /dev/loop1p4 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 4 Aug 7 13:01 /dev/loop1p5 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 5 Aug 7 13:01 /dev/loop1p6 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 6 Aug 7 13:01 /dev/loop1p7 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 7 Aug 7 13:01 /dev/loop1p8 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 8 Aug 7 13:01 /dev/loop1p9 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2 Aug 7 13:09 /dev/loop2 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 24 Aug 7 13:09 /dev/loop2p1 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 33 Aug 7 13:09 /dev/loop2p10 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 34 Aug 7 13:09 /dev/loop2p11 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 35 Aug 7 13:09 /dev/loop2p12 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 25 Aug 7 13:09 /dev/loop2p2 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 26 Aug 7 13:09 /dev/loop2p3 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 27 Aug 7 13:09 /dev/loop2p4 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 28 Aug 7 13:09 /dev/loop2p5 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 29 Aug 7 13:09 /dev/loop2p6 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 30 Aug 7 13:09 /dev/loop2p7 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 31 Aug 7 13:09 /dev/loop2p8 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 32 Aug 7 13:09 /dev/loop2p9 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 3 Aug 7 12:59 /dev/loop3 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 4 Aug 7 12:59 /dev/loop4 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 5 Aug 7 12:59 /dev/loop5 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 6 Aug 7 12:59 /dev/loop6 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 7 Aug 7 12:59 /dev/loop7 > crw-rw---- 1 root disk 10, 237 Aug 7 12:59 /dev/loop-control > (cr) (feature/deb11-II) colin@M00974055-VM ~/chromiumos/src/scripts $ > sudo ls /dev/loop-control > /dev/loop-control > > > _________________________________________________________________
